sommeil artist profiles highlight the raw submissions used to create the sommeil sleep concert remix experiment, an installation which remixes robert rich’s sleep concert using sleep music collected from nearly 100 artists from all over the world.

This track uses a scale derived from the overtone series. “D” or 8:7 is the “tonic” with 13:7 being the 7:4 (7th harmonic proper) to the “D” or 8:7. So it goes: 8:7, 9:7, 10:7, 11:7, 12:7, 13:7 – the other “chromatic” tones are filled in by 3:2 (proper fifths) going down or up from these pitches.

My name is Nick Gish. My current focus is on building just intonation scales around basic structures like 3:2s (fifths) and 7:4s (harmonic 7ths) and filling the spaces in between with like intervals which are smaller increments away. For me it is about the relationships between labeled “pitches” and then the sonic results of these relationships. I look at the piano keyboard (hooked up to a piano modeling program) as a means to vibrate the air in different configurations – the keyboard is a tool to manipulate sound waves and have them form accumulations.