Sleep
(studio composition, 2019)
Sleep is a long form recorded project, composed for my studio composition module in my final year of studies at the University of Bristol. For it, I won the university’s final year studio composition prize. It features artist Myylo Whyte on vocals in the first part ‘Dusk’ and Zak Eastop on Flugelhorn throughout.
“Sleep fascinates me, more specifically the movement from alert consciousness into slumber. It terrifies me too. I find the process of letting go into that state of not caring a beautiful metaphor for so many other things in life... Zak Eastop’s amazing Flugelhorn performance serves as a link in the constant deceleration towards this. Sleep is both a representation of literally falling into sleep, a metaphor for letting go emotionally, a metaphor for death. A metaphor for our acceptance of the end times and our cultural existence.”