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Late Junction: Enter the Dream Machine

Enter the Dream Machine

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Verity begins a month of dreams with a KMRU mixtape and a commission by Felicia Atkinson.

Verity Sharp begins a month-long season devoted to dreams and dreaming machines, with a mixtape by Kenyan artist KMRU and a unique commission by French composer Felicia Atkinson.

The dream world has long provided a rich source of inspiration to artists, from the ‘dream music’ of La Monte Young to Delia Derbyshire’s radio inventions and Aphex Twin’s music for lucid dreaming. This month, as the UK wakes up from a year of hibernation, a time when many have experienced vivid dreams, Late Junction explores the music of dreams and the different ways they have inspired artists. In collaboration with the artist Sam Potter, we try to imagine what a communal dream, generated by the Late Junction audience, might sound like.  

Last year Potter trained an artificial intelligence programme on pages from his dream diary until it could generate texts that convincingly mimicked his dreams. Over the last month, Sam has been feeding the machine dreams sent in by Late Junction listeners, and the result is a series of AI-generated, collective dream texts. We then invited a selection of composers to set these texts to music, starting with the French composer Felicia Atkinson. Verity is joined by Sam Potter to talk us through how the machine works and introduce our first commission. 
 
Also on the show, we have a mixtape from the Kenyan sound artist and ambient musician KMRU. His work incorporates field recordings, machine learning, radio art and improvisation. For his mixtape, he dives headfirst into the dream world, crafting a kaleidoscopic, 30-minute, fever dream. Elsewhere we play devotional music from Gujarat and music by Jon Hassell inspired by Malaysian dream theory. 
 
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