Sleepify Mask
Sweet Streams
In 2014, Vulpeck released the album, Sleepify, which contained no audible sounds on ten tracks, roughly 30 seconds each. Fans were encouraged to play the album on repeat while they slept to build up Spotify royalties to fund their upcoming tour.
Featuring Vulf Mono by OH no Type Co.
*Profit is split 50/50 with Vulfpeck ッ
DESIGN
Andrew Neyer
2023
MATERIAL
100% Concept
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PROFIT
50% Vulfpeck / 50% Designer
MONEY FOR NOTHING
Vulfpeck released Sleepify in March 2014 as a means to fund a concert tour of the same name; all of the shows were to be free of charge, but funded solely using royalty payments from the album on the music streaming service Spotify. The service calculates royalties based on how many times a track has been played, counting a single play as listening to the song for at least 30 seconds. As such, all of the tracks on Sleepify are just over thirty seconds in length, and consist solely of silence; a promotional video for the album jokingly labeled it as "the most silent album ever recorded". The band encouraged fans to stream the album on a loop overnight while they were sleeping (hence the name); with each stream costing US$0.007, The Guardian estimated that streaming the album for seven hours would accumulate $5.88 in royalty payments over 840 streams, and 100 people doing the same with one device each would accumulate $588 in payments.
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Ⓢ Objective
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