An overnight sleepover in which people experienced a unique dream-like and immersive night of music and stories, sound and images

The Arms Of Sleep, the third part of the Arms Of Sleep trilogy, created an atmosphere where the audience spent the night surrounded by sound and shadows, balancing and drifting between sleep and wakefulness.

The choir became the staff of a strange, surreal hotel, and fifty guests arrived at 9 pm each night, to be led to a white maze of beds, where they were sung to sleep by the singers. A bell rang at 2am, and the audience was led to a dream-like event that left some people wondering, when they awoke to the sound of the dawn chorus, whether it had happened at all.

Music was written by Jonathan Baker, Orlando Gough, Jon Hopkins and Helen Chadwick with atmospheric themed films and visuals from artist Sal Pittman.

The Assembly House, Norwich,as part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival in May 2017
Thirle Place, Brighton, as part of the Brighton Festival in May 2018

The Arms Of Sleep 2017/18