

Illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Sleeper is a semi-aleatoric composition using a tuning of 43 harmonics reduced to an octave in each of five instances of Absynth. The source midi material driving absynth is a combination of five difference piano performances. The reading is by Jerome McGann as provided by the PennSound archive. The text of Poe’s poem is here.

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