Sleepstates

by SONAMB

Title track from SLEEPSTATES album featuring AI feminist voices from the electrical imaginary, sound sculpture and broken radio transmissions. The video was created in collaboration with Izzy Bolt, the piece premiered at MUTEK Distant Arcades in 2020, and is now the lead AV full piece on the SLEEPSTATES.NET platform, beginning the SleepCycle of playable AV pieces depicting techno-emotional states between human and machine. SLEEPSTATES.NET is a browser based work where the user navigates to different states of algorithmic slumber, a sleep-cycle of audiovisual interactions that takeover their screen. Exploring themes of machine addiction and autonomy, sleep sanctity, the networked condition and how citizens are subjected to emotion extraction via platform capitalism, these dream transmissions journey through the techno- emotional states of slumber we experience between humans and machines late at night. Users experience these AV screen-takeovers and interact with the interface via checking their slumber status and machine addiction levels. Finally they are asked to join SONAMB in defending sleep by ‘transmitting their frequency’ and breathing into the machine. An audio reactive noise field appears where they contribute to a collective white noise sleep aid. This net-art piece accompanies SLEEPSTATES, the debut album from SONAMB, the new music project from Manchester sound artist Vicky Clarke and features sounds from the record across the platform.