>>dream transmissions from the electrical imaginary>>

SLEEPSTATES is the debut release by SONAMB, the new music project from Manchester sound artist Vicky Clarke, released November 2022. Exploring machine addiction, broken radio transmissions and algorithmic sleep territories, the record takes the listener through a cycle of dream transmissions from the electrical imaginary; the techno – emotional states of slumber we experience between humans and machines late at night.  

‘a glitchy experimental techno jerker’

Boomkat review

Created over the past three years via networked locations, sonic states combine transmission recordings between Manchester, Berlin and St Petersburg and lockdown internet noise experiments, bringing together her processes of sound creation with DIY electronics, sound sculpture, musique concrete and machine learning. The record explores the sonic materiality of our technologies, the sanctity of sleep and ideas of autonomy and control as we meld into our machines, blurring conscious boundaries of our waking and networked selves.

Reception: The album was described as a ‘glitchy experimental techno jerker’ by Boomkat and ‘a stunning collection‘ receiving a full page feature in Electronic Sound magazine >>Read both reviews here >> Sleepstates was featured on Afrodeutsche’s The People’s Party show on BBC 6 Music, as SONAMB took on the unmixable challenge and played album track Sync Whole.>>Listen to feature>>. Album tracks also received airplay on NTS, Resonance FM, Camp Radio and Repeater radio.

SLEEPSTATES.NET: The release is accompanied by SLEEPSTATES.NET, a net-art piece featuring music from the record. 

Credits: All tracks are written, produced and mixed by SONAMB, except track 7, mixed by Francine Perry and tracks 2 & 9, co-mixed by SONAMB and Francine Perry. SLEEPSTATES is mastered by Katie Tavini, Weird Jungle.

Listen: The album is self-released on Control Data Records, and is available on tape cassette and digital download direct from Bandcamp and Boomkat.