I was so happy to learn that my piece Sleep Song (Chirps Of The Exosphere) got selected for the highlights album for Music For Sleep, a project by Cities And Memory, a global sound archiving and remixing platform!
Music For Sleep is Cities And Memory's latest undertaking, in which artists and field recordists from all over the world collaborated to create a massive online collection of compositions designed to help you attain peace, tranquillity and get some good sleep. This project encompasses more than 280 compositions and field recordings from 41 countries, showcasing a diverse range of artistic styles. The compositions include parts of the original field recordings that the composers were each assigned. Inspired and moved by the assigned recordings in various ways, we reimagined the captured sounds to create our pieces.
You can learn more about the project and listen to the pieces here:
https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/
And here's the highlights album:
https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-sleep
I got to work with the sounds captured at Rumassala Sanctuary in Sri Lanka. I was enchanted by how bustling the jungle beach actually is - it is absolutely packed with sounds. I was especially drawn to the tweets and chirps of the birds and insects, which inspired me to record a simple, peaceful, lullaby-like song. I don’t know what time of day it was when these sounds were captured, but I imagined it was night - hence the idea for a lullaby. The lyrics were inspired by one of the singers I admire, the late Chuck Mosley; I imagined singing a farewell lullaby to him, far beyond our Earthly realm, joined by a choir of birds and insects whose voices are filtered by the many layers of the Earth’s atmosphere.