Dream Harvest

Dream Harvest is  a sound composition resulting from an interdisciplinary research, in collaboration with Dr. Rubén Herzog, a Chilean scientist from the Paris Brain Institute. The project involved the development of a sound creation methodology based on electroencephalogram recordings from sleeping subjects (Data from the Dream Data Base).

The structure of the piece followed the stages of one sleep cycle (wakefulness, non-rapid eye movement stages (REM in English) N1, N2, and N3, and the REM stage, as seen in the image), which change in predominance and behavior throughout the night, thus affecting the rhythm and tone of the compositions. Each piece represented one of these stages, and the MIDI signals used came from sleep registers of these stages of one individual. The sound design was based on the physiological descriptions of each stage of sleep and what those descriptions evoked, also using practices such as automatic writing from the Surrealist movement as inspiration. 

This work invites reflection on the value of the subconscious world and the influence it has on creativity and the waking world. Both the composition and its meditation version aim to generate an inner journey and induce a state of hypnagogia, to activate intuition and divergent thinking.