To nap in concert: hammocks on garage campus

Sleeping in concert is considered a faux pas, but in this case it is expressly desired: For a sleep concert dozens of hammocks are hung up at the weekend in the Chemnitz Tram Museum. The music comes from a trio around the artist Julia Buch. The musicians play pieces composed especially for this purpose. "When listening to music, the human body adjusts its heartbeat and breathing rate to the speed of a song," explains Buch, who studied pop music design in Mannheim. The musicians take advantage of that. The pieces are composed in such a way that listeners are led into a phase of deep relaxation.

The idea originated more than ten years ago, the 32-year-old says - initially in cooperation with a health insurance company for a prevention course against complaints such as high blood pressure and headaches. In the meantime, the musicians are regularly on the road with their sleep program and have already been guests in churches, in the Panometer Leipzig and in the Lichthaus Halle. However, they are not alone in this. Thus the composer Max judge with its project Sleep created a soundtrack for the sleep and with approximately eight-hour sleep concerts performed.

So long do not have to hold out the visitors in Chemnitz freely. Something longer than one hour should last the concert and offer the guests a time-out in the otherwise often hectic everyday life. The concert is a partner project of the European Capital of Culture 2025, because the area of the museum - a former depot for streetcars - is then to become a place of culture and encounter. As a garage campus, topics such as mobility, digitization, urban development, nutrition and inclusion are to be addressed there in various forms.

But in what wardrobe do you go to the sleep concert? Evening dress and jacket or nightgown and pajamas? "You don't have to come in your pajamas," Buch assures. Casual, comfortable clothing is best. And snoring has hardly been a problem either, he says. "And if it does get too loud and bothers someone, you just nudge the neighbor."