My first mistake was waking up early to get groceries. Except that the performance was “Sleep,” Max Richter’s eight-hour soundtrack engineered, with the help of scientific consultants, to provoke a relaxing night. “Our lives are very data-saturated now,” Mr. Richter said in an interview last week. “We’re always on our screens, and mostly we’re being sold stuff. It squeezes out a lot of richness of what we are.”

Source: New York Times May 07, 2018 17:26 UTC