Music For Insomniacs was written in response to Disquiet Junto Project 0350: Selected Insomniac Works.
Step 1: It’s the middle of the night, long past dusk and long before dawn. You can’t sleep.
Step 2: Think about what kind of music you’d want to hear right now — super quiet, super subtle, unlikely to wake you, potentially to ease you back to the comfort of your pillow, or at least to calm your mind.
Step 3: Record the sort of music that Step 2 made you imagine.
I wanted to put something together that fulfilled the idea of a drone, but needed variability – enough interest so that if I could not get back to sleep I could at least listen. Well in the background is a string orchestra accompanied by trombone and clarinet, but one is unlikely to recognize too much of that. In for foreground are the electronics, seeded by the single call of an owl I recorded after waking up in the middle of one night.
Music For Insomniacs was written for Clarinet, Trombone, Violin, Viola, Cello, String Bass and electronics.
