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Thinking of transmitting the 22h piece [Title of Work]
How we want to do the 22h of transmission(s)?
All questions will pop up on the way from idea and sound till radio.
There will be new ideas for In(T0RN)Ventions.
Will we transmit radically binaural or in old school stereo?
(Actually there is no difference only in the initial mixing and subsequent listening only with headphones).
And all these questions about mobility, tourism, cross-border work, but in the end where will we be?
At home, in another countryside, or … in Esch?
Etc..
TOOLS FOR A VERY LONG PERFORMANCE
One of the techniques to “stay on the job” is a training in bi- to polyphased or segmented sleep, like done before by politicians, soldiers, cosmo- and astronauts, solo sailors, artists and scientists. Buckminster Fuller, Napoleon and Churchill, Leonardo da Vinci or Tesla, they all did it. And when we were babies we were all doing it as well. Monophased sleep seems to have taken over recently, probably due to the industrial and office timeschedules. Each can find a comfortable polyphased sleep schedule while the idea is not to limit the hours of sleep. Salvador Dali, but also Thomas Edison and Alexander the Great were doing a different thing, by trying to wake up in the N1 stages of sleep, creating dreamlike movements which combine the last awake experiences with related memories and wandering thoughts. But that is a different idea.
In our case, to create a 22 hour performance, if each of us would be phased differently, we could guarantee that minimum trios, quartets, or even sextets to happen without additional fatigue symptoms while playing. Over the last years, the following schedule seemed comfortable and allowed an efficient working/creating schedule: first an early 3-hour sleep till 1 am followed by being awake for 2 hours, then another 4-hour sleep often interrupted by a maximal 1 hour awake period, provided a minimal half an hour siesta is enjoyed after lunch. But let each and all find their own relaxed phased timings.. sure a sleep based time fragmented composition can be made out of this. Various Artists, the artist has been experimenting with this for years, and is living in a triphased sleep existence, and promised to enlighten, train us a little in the coming months.
Let's start to think about phased/segmented sleep as a compositional structure for the work…
