re: LaMonte Young's Dream House

...ahh, the lovely, wondrous experience of LaMonte's sound
installation in NYC. We three field trippers made the pilgrimage
Saturday evening - and again it was well worth it. I have not been
there in several years and it always seems new even though it's the
same tones being generated into that space.

Anyone here heard this installation? One truly participates in
creating the microtonal/musical experience through active listening,
moving around the space, etc. - it's fresh every time, and though
stimulating sometimes to the point of overwhelmingness, also
meditative. It's a gorgeous demonstration of resonance too.

More info about it here:

http://melafoundation.org

Enjoy,

~Jim

S p a c i o u s overtone music

http://www.spectralvoices.com

my fave spot was to stick my head in the space between the speaker panels
and the walls.

Dante

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Cole [mailto:thejimcole@...]
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> Subject: [MMM] re: LaMonte Young's Dream House
>
>
> ...ahh, the lovely, wondrous experience of LaMonte's sound
> installation in NYC. We three field trippers made the pilgrimage
> Saturday evening - and again it was well worth it. I have not been
> there in several years and it always seems new even though it's the
> same tones being generated into that space.
>
> Anyone here heard this installation? One truly participates in
> creating the microtonal/musical experience through active listening,
> moving around the space, etc. - it's fresh every time, and though
> stimulating sometimes to the point of overwhelmingness, also
> meditative. It's a gorgeous demonstration of resonance too.
>
> More info about it here:
>
> http://melafoundation.org
>
> Enjoy,
>
> ~Jim
>
> S p a c i o u s overtone music
>
> http://www.spectralvoices.com
>
>
>
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> my fave spot was to stick my head in the space between the speaker
panels and the walls.

...I like that too. I stood in the middle of the room near the
extension of the hall wall (if you drew an imaginary line from the
inside wall into the room itself) much of the time and moved my head
very slowly around that line.

I had forgotten how "minimal" the sound is from down the hall or just
outside the door to the space - I was thinking: "there's not much to
listen to, is there?"...then going into the main room, of course all
the tones filled me up and it was a sonic corncopia that was often
almost overwhelming..."Ahh, this is what I remember - same feeling,
different experience."

~Jim

alien starship engine room

from the hallway outside a sense of dread begins.. is it going to hurt?

later, head on pillow, you realize 2 hours have passed without a single
thought.

leaving, even canal street is peaceful and beautiful...

>From: 2357111317 <spigot@...>
>Subject: Re: re: LaMonte Young's Dream House
>
>alien starship engine room
>
>from the hallway outside a sense of dread begins.. is it going to hurt?
>
>later, head on pillow, you realize 2 hours have passed without a single
>thought.
>
>leaving, even canal street is peaceful and beautiful...

*grrrrrsssnnarrrlsssppputttterrr!* lucky nycers...

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Hanuman Zhang, musical mad scientist: "Nah, I don't wanna take over the
world, just the sound spectrum to make it my home."

The German word for "noise" _Geräusch_ is derived from _rauschen_ "the
sound of the wind," related to _Rausch_ "ecstasy, intoxication" hinting at some
of the possible aesthetic, bodily effects of noise in music. In Japanese
Romaji: _uchu_ = "universe"... _uchoten_ = "ecstasty," "rapture"..._uchujin_ =
[space] alien!

"... simple, chaotic, anarchic and menacing.... This is what people of today
have lost and need most - the ability to experience permanent bodily and
mental ecstasy, to be a receiving station for messages howling by on the ether from
other worlds and nonhuman entities, those peculiar short-wave messages which
come in static-free in the secret pleasure center in the brain." - Slava Ranko
(Donald L. Philippi)