Recording the sounds of dreamsSourced
He heard sounds while asleep.
Then tried to rebuild them awake.
Aphex Twin said lucid dreaming inspired his 1994 album Selected Ambient Works Volume II. He described waking after short sleeps in the studio and trying to record the sounds he remembered, while never quite reproducing them completely.
Music made from
what a dream left behind.
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