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Old 2018.05.21, 03:45 AM   #1
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I worked for La Monte for many years, and spent quite a lot of time here.

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From http://www.melafoundation.org/DHpressFY17.html :

Dream House, a collaborative Sound and Light Environment by composer La Monte Young and visual artist Marian Zazeela, is presented in an extended exhibition at MELA Foundation, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor.

Young and Zazeela characterize the Sound and Light Environment as "a time installation measured by a setting of continuous frequencies in sound and light." In the light environment Marian Zazeela presents four works, two environmental: Imagic Light and Magenta Day, Magenta Night, in installations specifically designed for the site; and two sculptural: the neon work, Dream House Variation I, and the wall sculpture, Ruine Window 1992 from her series, Still Light. In the environment Imagic Light, Zazeela projects pairs of colored lights on mobile forms to create seemingly three-dimensional colored shadows in a luminous field.

In the concurrent sound environment, La Monte Young presents The Base 9:7:4 Symmetry in Prime Time When Centered above and below The Lowest Term Primes in The Range 288 to 224 with The Addition of 279 and 261 in Which The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped above and Including 288 Consists of The Powers of 2 Multiplied by The Primes within The Ranges of 144 to 128, 72 to 64 and 36 to 32 Which Are Symmetrical to Those Primes in Lowest Terms in The Half of The Symmetric Division Mapped below and Including 224 within The Ranges 126 to 112, 63 to 56 and 31.5 to 28 with The Addition of 119, a periodic composite sound waveform environment created from sine wave components generated digitally in real time on a custom-designed Rayna interval synthesizer.

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Thirty-four years ago composer La Monte Young and visual artist Marian Zazeela pioneered the Tribeca loft movement when they moved into a work space at 275 Church Street between Franklin and White: tin ceiling, toilet in the corner, no central heat. Young, who thrives on the isolation he knew as a child growing up in rural Idaho and Utah, could play his electronically generated music at ear-splitting levels here all night long without bothering heaven or earth. Over the last three decades, musicians, composers, artists, poets, philosophers, mathematicians, computer scientists, art dealers, students, and spiritual leaders from the world over have passed through the ubiquitous black door and trekked the steep stairs to play and hear music, to discuss art, or to calculate complex tuning systems.

The Dream House is a modernist construction, in that the artists have taken years to develop a controlled environment that aspires to being art at the highest level. It also derives from a minimal aesthetic in that the sound component is comprised of continuous sine-wave drones, and the light art component features slowly changing shapes and subtly changing colors. Both sound and light seem simple on the surface, but become devastatingly complex after careful analysis. The visitor must become engaged in the experience. The Dream House is not for passive entertainment.

Young's sound scape uses 35 different sine tones tuned according to the composer's own system of just intonation. The 35 tones are spread over 10 octaves (with the lowest tones rumbling from the huge, white speakers in each corner of the room), with 20 of the tones squeezed into a small portion of the 7th octave (some separated by only 1/14th of a half step) that create sound pulsations like you've never heard before. Each sine wave vibrates in different parts of the room, so that the chord you hear changes as you move through the room. I like to sit on the floor in modified lotus position, tilting my head slowing back and forth, from side to side, to create my own melodies and sound textures. The visitor with an acute ear can actually "play" the room like an instrument: explore the sound close to the wall, close to the floor, in the corners, or just standing still. Or lie on the floor and allow the sound to float you to heaven, slide you into hell, or transport you wherever you want to go.

Zazeela's light installation, "Imagic Light," offers an intriguing complement to the sound, even though they are equally effective when viewed in silence. Using pairs of colored lights and suspended aluminum mobiles cut in calligraphic shapes, Zazeela explores the relationship between object and shadow, making the tangible intangible, and vice versa. Enjoy the installation for its mesmerizing beauty, or try to analyze how the different colors are achieved, how the mobiles create the resulting shadows, or infinite number of symmetrical patterns that can be created as the mobiles shift with the air patterns in the room.

Be sure to take time to savor the poetry in Young's 107-word title to the audio component and to read Kyle Gann's informative "Village Voice" review that gives hints on how to maximize the Dream House experience. Also, be sure to reserve some time for the three additional works by Zazeela that are on display.

The Dream House is a unique life experience that you will remember for years, and one that you will probably return to time and again. If you give it the concentration it deserves, you will discover new things about yourself and see the workaday world from a distant perspective. It's a great place to celebrate, mourn, reflect, create, rest, analyze, energize, focus, wander, and revitalize. From the rose-colored windows you can look out onto Manhattan's street theater knowing you can take center stage again, this time all the wiser.
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Old 2018.05.22, 03:40 PM   #2
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This is absolutely FASCINATING. Seriously. I'd love to go here sometime.
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