Dream State Vision is a solo project initiated by Shaun Sankaran.

Consisting one track lasting over 2 hours with accompanying artwork and instruction manual, the self-titled Dream State Vision is an ambitious piece of music that drifts alternately between the visceral and conceptual. With Satie’s furniture music and Eno’s ambient music as historical forebears, DSV draws focus on the act of listening itself. Released exclusively as a digital download, its mode of distribution and listening format are a reflection of present-day consumption habits.

To launch the album, DSV plays at various locations in the coming weekends. In the spirit of the music, the launches will be privately held in residential locations, shared intimately between artist and hosts, with all residual documentation subsequently shared across the Internet.

While this release is offered at no charge whatsoever, please do consider a donation to support the artist.

Review:
“And in [the] politicised noise/silence dialectic, the virtue of Sankaran’s slow-moving gesture is wrought. The album comes along with a list of instructions: no loud spaces, keep the volume low, relax and listen through. It is a wordless rallying cry, unapologetically poised against the establishment. It is a rail against chest-thumping furor, of which rock has proven futile. It is anarchy. So in a way, Sankaran is being more of a punk than ever before.” – Iliyas Ong, Ziggy, August 2012, p. 26