Perpetual: A Somnium Continuum

by Robert Rich

Type: Album
Released: 15 July 2014
Label: Soundscape
Country: United States
Length: 8:00:00
Community rating: 3.72/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Designed as an infinite playback experience, 'Perpetual' is an eight-hour ambient work intended to influence the listener's sleep cycle and hypnagogic states. Robert Rich constructs a deep, slow-moving environment of organic drones and subtle textures that hover on the edge of perception. It serves as both a functional tool for sleep and a profound artistic exploration of sustained tone and psychoacoustics.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, ambient, electronic, deconstructed, effects-laden, droning, long-form, sleep

Tracklist

Credits

Robert Rich - assemblage, edited by, electronics [analog and digital electronics], flute [processed flutes], piano [processed acoustic piano], lap steel guitar [with sustainiac model b], chimes, sounds [bowed metal, environmental sounds recorded by], liner notes
John Bergin - design
Andy Wiskes - field recording [processed environments from the library of]
Brad Cole - photography by
Robert Rich - recorded by, engineer, mixed by, mastered by, electronics [analog and digital electronics], flute [processed flutes], chimes [processed chimes], zither [processed zithers], piano [processed acoustic piano], lap steel guitar [custom sustainiac lap steel guitar], sounds [environments recorded by], liner notes
Calvin Wong - sounds [electric fish sounds on somnium recorded with the assistance of]