A segment of my 3 hour set that was recorded live during the 2013 Ostgut Ton resident's night at Berghain.

Ben Klock - Berghain 10th Aug 2013

Hamburger Helper (prod. Retro Spectro)

Funkmaster Flex Premieres Otis on Hot 97, July 20, 2011

Waiting For (Saxophone Quartet)

Three Truths

Peacemongggggggger

it is 64 degrees at 9:49 pm in my panopticon

it is 64 degrees at 9:49 pm in my dimmed room

Hypnagogia, also referred to as "hypnagogic hallucination”, is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep (tuck). The word derives from the Greek words for “sleep” and “guide” and has been described by Salvador Dali as “the slumber with a key.” I experienced this phenomenon, along with lucid dreaming, quite frequently growing up. During this transition, I would often experience repetitive auditory and visual hallucinations that were hard to escape, dubbed the Tetris Effect. While some people praise and utilize this sensation for its creative capabilities and self-psychoanalytic qualities, I found it to be something I became afraid of. It is the most raw and uncontrollable presentation of the subconscious in a state of consciousness.

In Hypnagogia, I set this phenomenon to music through a series of interval preludes. Each of the five piano preludes are consecutively structured around descending, ‘closing’ intervals, much like the closing of the eye to the singularity: one. They represent vivid accounts of hypnagogic hallucinations that range from the traumatic and disturbing, to the geometric and colorful. Hypnagogia thus presents a type of passing. As with the transition to unconsciousness, the piece is consistently self-referential yet changing.

Performance by Joshua Marzan

Waiting For (Saxophone Quartet)

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