Tracking the Scottish Play

The Sounds of Sleep No More

Authors

  • Glenn Ricci Library of Congress

Keywords:

Macbeth, Performance Studies, Music

Abstract

Music is crucial to the experience of Sleep No More. The production features popular gongs from the 1930s and early 1940s; film soundtracks from the 1950s and 1960s; and a few contemporary works. Providing more than simply background sound, this music engages viewers actively in interpretive exercises with no decisive solution. SNM's music helps to create both atmosphere and an elusive subtext to its many-layered dreamscape.

Author Biography

Glenn Ricci, Library of Congress

Glenn Ricci is a video producer for the Library of Congress and sound designer for The Scarehouse, a nationally recognized haunted attraction in Pittsburgh. He has composed and produced several albums of music, the most recent being Fever Brain Battery, under the name Delirium Dog (2011). His master's thesis, "Tomb of the Unknown Pilgrim: Vonnegut's Manuscript Revisions of Slaughterhouse-Five," is available at the University of Georgetown.

ssue Cover text: B&L, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2012. Image: Lady Macbeth cradles Macbeth who sits naked in a bloody bathtub. Masked figures look on.

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Published

2020-06-25

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2012): Fall/Winter

Section

Articles