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Conrad Tao - piano

"there is no sleep so deep" takes its title from Samuel Beckett’s play "Footfalls."  The play consists primarily of an old woman obsessively pacing up and down the stage.  M, the protagonist, stops occasionally to recount a monologue of her slow withdrawal from life, and of her anguished attempts at self-assertion.  As the work progresses, she becomes increasingly more bent and more obscured in darkness, finally disappearing in the end.

The script of "Footfalls" opens with M calling to her mother.  When a voice offstage responds, M inquires if she was asleep.  “Deep asleep.  I heard you in my deep sleep.  There is no sleep so deep I would not hear you there.” I found that exchange very beautiful and it resonated with me long afterwards. 

"there is no sleep so deep" for piano engages with the text, imagery, and stage directions of "Footfalls" on various levels.  The most evident parallels are in the textures:  the driving sixteenth-note passages echo M’s obsessive footsteps, and the resonant repeated-note figures recall her counting to herself as she walks to and fro “one, two, three…” Harmonic and rhythmic ciphers derived from Beckett’s text operate beneath the surface of "there is no sleep so deep," but essentially the motivation behind the music is my grief over the death of my grandmother, Constance Dubose Jones, who passed away at the age of ninety-five last year.  This work is a tombeau for her and a reflection on my own emotional struggles with death and loss. 

"there is no sleep so deep" was written for Conrad Tao's residency at Duke University in March of 2016.

Sound Engineering credit Rick Nelson.

Photo Credit Nate Carpenter

there is no sleep so deep

Originally composed by Minoru Yamada.
Released in "Orphen: Scion of Sorcery" (2000) for Playstation 2.
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I love this song! I don't even really know why I love it so much since the original is so short and repetitive. Even despite those flaws, I think this song is a stroke of genius. It sounds like some kind of lost Zelda song to me. I wanted to honor this song properly by extending it and making it sound much larger with an orchestral cover. If any of you are fans of the game, I hope this cover satisfies!
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Welcome to my SoundCloud! I'm Sam, a composer/producer and multi-instrumentalist. 

My genre influences include rock, metal, alternative, indie, prog, acoustic, orchestral, electronic, ambient, film scores, and video game music. 

My artist inspirations include Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Frost*, Wilderun, Haken, Tesseract, Animals As Leaders, A Perfect Circle, Leprous, Dream Theater, Caligula's Horse, Wayne Lytle of Animusic, Elliott Smith, Incubus, Caspian, Jeremy Soule (Skyrim), Motoi Sakuraba, and Koji Kondo. 

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