Nuit de l’Imagination, Dreams: Live from Reid Hall

Atelier · Jun 11, 2026 · 1h 8m

While being a universal experience, sleep remains a poorly understood biological necessity whose mechanisms, disruptions, and cultural meanings have occupied scientists, philosophers, and artists for centuries. In this episode, recorded live at Reid Hall during the Nuit de l'imagination, concert pianist and harpsichordist Magdalena Stern‑Baczewska and sleep physician Jordan Stern trace the intersection of music and medicine through their decade‑long collaboration.

Stern outlines the scale of undiagnosed sleep apnea, the limits of pharmaceutical treatment for insomnia, and what neuroscience…