Max Richter's Sleep
Eight hours of peaceful music based on neuroscientific principles: a sleepover at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
Cast
Max Richter — Composer, pianist
Grace Davidson — Soprano
Ben Russell — Violinist
Natalia Bonner — Violinist
Nick Barr — Violist
Ian Burdge — Cellist
Chris Worsey — Cellist
Program notes
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Released in 2015, Max Richter's Sleep was born as a labor of love and attention: the composer and his partner, artist Yulia Mahr, were seeking a "mini holiday" from nonstop digital connection at the dawn of the Instagram era, and Mahr found herself tuning in to live streams of Richter's music while half asleep and half a world away. "She [would tell me] that there’s something special on an emotional level about listening to music in that state," Richter recounted in an interview for Cultured. "You can’t censor anything."
Ten years later, the eight-and-a-half-hour Sleep, designed according to neuroscientific principles to accompany a good night's rest, is the first classical album to reach one billion streams, and Richter's anniversary tour brings him and an intrepid lineup of artists to Paris's Fondation Louis Vuitton as hundreds of spectators spend the night in individual beds, listening and dozing as they please: "You can go to sleep," says the composer, "you can stay up, you can do your yoga, you can do your journaling, you can do whatever you want to do… You’ve got hundreds of people who’ve basically trusted a bunch of strangers to just go to sleep and spend the night together in a space, which is its own kind of magic." medici.tv is honored to invite you to experience the sacred calm of this one-of-a-kind sonic journey from the comfort of your own home, under the stars, or wherever you most need it.
Photo © Mike Terry
