Experience Salem-based band Sleep Millennium at TEDxSalem VI

TEDxSalem atten­dees will get to expe­ri­ence the artis­tic expres­sion of Salem-based band Sleep Mil­len­ni­um as one of the enter­tain­ment fea­tures of this year’s event.

Found­ed by award-win­ning artist and song­writer-turned-DIY film­mak­er Josh Schroed­er (gui­tar, keys, lead vocals), the band also includes Jarred Ven­ti (bass, keys, vocals), Ronan Bak­er (gui­tar, keys, vocals) and David Aizuss (drums).

The con­cept of Sleep Mil­len­ni­um is some­thing evolv­ing said Josh.

“…It is the mech­a­nism through which I’m try­ing to explain (or process) my expe­ri­ence of that “yin/yang” of order and chaos and dis­cov­er/derive/shed-light on mean­ing and truth,” he said. “The world is incred­i­bly com­plex. There’s a seem­ing­ly end­less uni­verse to draw inspi­ra­tion from. From the begin­ning of Sleep Mil­len­ni­um as a group, we decid­ed that there would be no bar­ri­er to explore what we want­ed to do. And that we would chal­lenge our­selves to dream big­ger about what was pos­si­ble giv­en our resources or lack-there­of. It’s also about hav­ing the best time we can while attempt­ing to make art we can feel excit­ed about and proud of.”

Sum­ma­riz­ing their sound as some­what exper­i­men­tal, but only to the degree that the group grav­i­tates toward a spacey, almost film-score-like approach to pro­duc­tion, Josh said: “At the end of the day these are pop songs in their form, and we’ve orches­trat­ed them to have a com­mon the­mat­ic thread. Any­thing goes in terms of genre, but you’ll hear ele­ments of rock, pop, elec­tron­ic, and touch­es of the avant-garde.”

And of being asked to per­formed at TEDxSalem VI, Josh said: “Our first thought was that it’s a huge hon­or. And with that hon­or we feel it’s our respon­si­bil­i­ty to do our best to per­form at the high­est lev­el we can. It’s hum­bling to have been asked to per­form at TEDxSalem and the four of us are very excit­ed.”

Keep an eye on Sleep Mil­len­ni­um through its web­site at www.sleepmillennium.com.

“We have a series of sin­gles we’ve been work­ing on that we’re get­ting ready to release,” Josh said. “There’s talk of some tour­ing abroad, the sec­ond annu­al Blood Moon Music Fest is also some­thing we’re think­ing about, and we’re begin­ning to imag­ine what we might do to chal­lenge our­selves to dream even big­ger on our next full-length album.”

But until then, catch them when they per­form live at TEDxSalem VI on Jan­u­ary 5.

TEDxSalem VI

TEDxSalem VI is an all-day event fea­tur­ing talks, per­for­mances, refresh­ments, lunch and a swag bag. It runs 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sat­ur­day, Jan. 5 at the Salem Con­ven­tion Cen­ter. Tick­ets are on sale now for $55, $45 for stu­dents. Fol­low us on Face­book for the most up-to-date news from our com­mu­ni­ty, and check our web­site reg­u­lar­ly for new infor­ma­tion. You can also reach us at info@tedxsalem.com.