SOMMEIL: A CONCERT FOR SLEEP, beginning at 10:00 pm

on Saturday April 11th and ending at 7:00 am on Sunday April

12th: $15 including breakfast. All participants are asked to

provide their own sleeping bag and pillow.

You can also spend meditation time in the Sleep Space on April

11th from noon till 9:00 pm: $5 per hour and $3 per half hour.

From 6:00-9:00 pm the gallery will particpate in the St Claude

Arts District Gallery Opening Saturday. All proceeds benefit

Antenna Gallery.

Tanner Menard, Antenna Gallery and Experimedia Records

presents Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep, an international collaborative

experiment. Sommeil will be an all-night event beginning

at 10:00 pm on Saturday April 11th and ending on Sunday April

12th at 7:00 am. Participants are asked to slowly fall asleep while

live ambient and environmental music is performed through the

night by Tanner Menard.

Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep will be Menard’s reinterpretation of

the sleep concert experiment, first created by Robert Rich in 1982

and will be presented at the Antenna Gallery 3161 Burgundy

St New Orleans, LA 70117 in the heart of the St Claude Arts

District. The concert will be realized with Rich’s permission and

guidance. Sleep concerts are all-night events in which the audience

is asked to attend the concert with a sleeping bag and pillow

and to fall asleep while a slowly unfolding sonic texture evolves

over the course of the night and into the morning. People attending

the event are asked to be willing to sleep during the event or

at least to remain silent during the course of the nine hour experience.

Not merely a recreation of Rich’s original idea, Sommeil is

a conceptual, global remix of a performance type that addresses

one of the most basic functionalities of ambient and environmental

sound; music by which to sleep.

In the spirit of remix and the Creative Commons movement, Menard,

a Louisiana native, has compiled submissions of audio material

for the concert from nearly seventy artists across the globe.

These artists answered a call for submissions marketed online by

Experimedia Records which asked for music and field recording

to be used, remixed and mashed up during this nocturnal event.

Submissions include drones, found sound, recordings of natural

and unnatural environments and synthetic music created on synthesizers

and computers. Submitters have included radio scientists,

geologists, psychologists, sound artists, musicians, composers,

installation artists as well as several well known figures in the

ambient music scene. During the course of the evening, Menard

will remix these sleep submissions into a constantly evolving

sonic texture that will lull the audience to sleep. A quad-channel

surround sound system will be provided by Piety St Studios for

maximum sonic enhancement of the sleep space and ambient

video lighting will be provided in the form of a video loop by the

internationally acclaimed VJ CHIKA. Experimedia Records has

generously agreed to release multiple out takes from this concert

on its Internet label under a free Creative Commons license.

Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep will be nine hours of uninterrupted

music beginning at 10:00 pm on Saturday April 11th and ending

at 7:00 am on Sunday April 12th at Antenna Gallery . Tickets to

the evening event will be $15 and will include a light breakfast

at waking time. During the day of April 11th Antenna Gallery

will be opening the space to allow people who do not wish to

sleep through the night to hear the original submissions from the

international community of artists. We are asking $5 per hour to

experience the meditative environment of the sleep space and $3

per half an hour from noon to 9:00 pm on Saturday April 11th.

At 6 pm we will also be participating in the St Claude Gallery

Opening that falls on the second Saturday of each month. All

proceeds will benefit Antenna Gallery. Please visit tannermenard.

archaichorizon.com to follow the event as it unfolds.

CURATOR AND SOUND ARTIST

Tanner Menard was born on September 20th, 1978 the same

month that Brian Eno published his essay entitled ‘Ambient

Music’. Cosmically connected to this conceptual shift in musical

consciousness, Menard’s music has always soared over minimalist

and ambient landscapes. At the age of 11 Menard composed

his first works for piano and quickly established a reputation as

a composer of minimalist music for orchestral forces. His work

‘joe’s last mix’ has been performed around the globe at a number

of distinguished festivals and was released in 2003 on Kafua

Records in Japan. In 2002 his sonic world was shaken by his experience

working with Naut Human, the well known Curator and

label owner at Recombinant Media Labs in San Francisco. There

he discovered the world of ambient and experimental electronic

music. In 2005 he served as an artist in residence at Arizona State

University where he collaborated with Jeph Jerman, Gary Hill

and Daniel Bernard Romain for his installation ‘envyronie’ which

combined orchestra, live electronics and desert recordings. His

collaboration with Jerman inspired a series of environmentally

based works and has subsequently marked the departure from

his classical and experimental backgrounds in favor of a world of

ambient landscapes and piano inspired sound meditations. Menard’s

music is released on Install Records, Archaic Horizon net

label, Friendly Virus net label, Kafua Records and Experimedia

(tbr) and his orchestral music has been published by Loose Filter

Music. His music has also appeared on the radio, on tv, in plays,

art galleries and major concert halls across the world and his blog

‘Tanner Menard’ is rapidly gaining international notoriety for such

collaborations as Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep and reviews and

interviews with an international pool of artists and label owners.

SUBMISSIONS

Tanner Menard and Experimedia Records have assembled a roster

of nearly seventy artists from around the globe including radio

scientists, geologists, psychologists, sound artists, musicians, composers,

installation artists as well as several well known figures in

the ambient music scene. These artists submitted material for Menard

to remix during the course of Sommeil: A Concert for Sleep.

Submissions include drones, found sound, recordings of natural

and unnatural environments and synthetic music created on synthesizers

and computers. A complete list of artists will be available

at the concert and will later be published on Tanner Menard’s

blog. Select works, remixed by Menard will appear on a release on

Experimedia Records in the months following the event.

VIDEO ARTIST

CHiKA is a graphic designer and a live computer visuals artist

working within New York’s expanding cinema community and VJ

scene. Her videos implement geometric minimalist patterns and

original graphics in unique, repetitive combinations.

She has performed at The Museum of Modern Art, The Hammer

Museum, Mutek, The Mapping Festival, Decibel Festival, the

Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève , Platform Bohenstrasses,

Théâtre Maisonneuve, Asia Contemporary Week, San Francisco

Art Institute, Eyebeam, Monkeytown, The Issue Project, Galapagos

Art Space, Tonic, Eyewash as well as private parties, festivals,

events, galleries and night clubs.

Since CHiKA started performing live in the summer of 2004,

she has become very active in the experimental music and video

underground scene in NYC. She is a member of the Share community,

which is an organization dedicated to supporting collaboration

and knowledge exchange in new media communities. The

first SHARE evening happened in New York in 2001. There are

now about 20 SHARE communities across the world.

She was recently featured on Club Chroma (www.Joost.com), Eyewash

3 DVD by Forward Motion Theater and published in Super

10, Art Book in 2008. CHiKA also collaborates with electronic

musicians and DJs on various projects. Log Log on to http://www.

imagima.com for more information.

GALLERY

Antenna is operated by the artist-run non-profit collective Press

Street who’s mission is to promote art and literature in the community

through dynamic projects, collaborations and publications.

Antenna is located at 3161 Burgundy St New Orleans, LA

70117 in the Bywater.

LABEL

Experimedia is a record label, arts organization, and online record

shop based out of Ohio, United States which is involved in the

digital and physical publication, promotion, and distribution of

exploratory music and visual arts. The Experimedia catalog covers

a broad stylistic palette of exploratory music including ambient,

electronica, electro-acoustic, experimental, dance, sound-art, microsound,

glitch, avant-garde, abstract, minimalist, and more.

The Experimedia online mailorder shop has recently expanded

to include the availability of releases from other select labels and

artists. This is intended to make more conveniently available some

of the worlds most innovative experimental music. By including

labels from overseas countries such as Japan, England, Germany,

Austria, Australia, and many others we intend to make music from

around the globe and within the United States more readily and

conveniently available throughout the world.

Experimedia also acts as a community based platform for creative

and conceptual media projects based upon collaborative research

and project development efforts. The projects.experimedia.net domain

and the Experimedia Projects Wiki have been developed to

facilitate the collaborative information gathering and organization

for these research efforts. The goal is that the Projects Wiki will

become a large resource of relevant information to the exploratory

sound and visual arts community as well as a historical account

of the collaborative efforts involved with Experimedia related projects.

If you are an artist interested in contributing research data

to our Projects Wiki or would like to initiate and curate a project

within our framework please feel free to contact Experimedia.