JEFF MILLS - Julie Tippex

PERFORMANCE PROJECTS:
Sleeper Wakes
Performance Running Time: 2 Hours.
Promotional trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCrCgzGQdHA
The Sleeper Wakes is a project created by Jeff Mills that focuses on the
proactive aspects in Electronic Music. Using the architectural concept of
Compression - Release conceptualize by Frank Lloyd Wright, Mills creates a
scenario whereabouts he makes a profound gesture through a concept entitled
“One Man Spaceship” CD/Events - Womb/Tokyo 2005; an adventurous approach
to Electronic Music by applying Classical orchestrations in ways that
were uncompromising and without much explanation. Immediately following
the debut this release, he chooses to step back and disappear from the Electronic
music scene for a scheduled time span of (4) four years 1996 - 2010. In
this time, Mills has been constantly creating a new style of music for the next
and final phase of the Sleeper Project. Conceptually, he explains that he is now
traveling the Universe in search of New Worlds to explore(“Worlds” meaning
Sounds in Music). His calculation is that such a extended absence from his long
and close relationship with the music audience would create the foundation in
which new ideas can be displayed, taking a giant step forward in terms of what
the audience would be prepared for.