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La Monte Young Marian Zazeela
Dream House Sound and Light Environment

Last three open dates this season:
Saturday, June 14
Thursday, June 19
Saturday, June 21
2:00 PM to Midnight

Contribution $4.00. Information 212-925-8270
MELA Foundation
275 Church Street, 3rd Floor
between Franklin & White Streets in Tribeca
www.melafoundation.org

Dream House: Seven+Eight Years of Sound and Light, 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. The environment is open
Thursdays and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight.
Suggested contribution is $4.00. The long-term exhibition
opened in Fall 1993 and continues for its tenth season
through June 21, 2003. The Dream House is scheduled to
reopen September 20 for the 2003-2004 season.

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: a neon
work, Dream House Variation I, and a 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.

Both artists are presenting works utilizing concepts of
structural symmetry. Zazeela's mobile forms are arrayed
in symmetrical patterns with lights placed in precisely
symmetrical positions creating symmetrical colored shadows;
the wall-mounted light sculpture and the neon are both symmetrical
forms. Young's sound environment is composed of frequencies
tuned to the harmonic series between 288 and 224, utilizing numbers
with factors of only 9, or those primes or octave transpositions of
smaller primes that fall within this range. The interval 288/256
reduces to a 9/8 interval as does the interval 252/224. Thirty-two
frequencies satisfy the above definition, of which seventeen fall
within the range of the upper, and fourteen fall within the range of
the lower of these two symmetrical 9/8 intervals. Young has
arranged these thirty-one frequencies in a unique constellation,
symmetrical above and below the thirty-second frequency, the
center harmonic 254 (the prime 127 x 2).

Young has stated that: "This is my newest and most radical
work; the Rayna synthesizer has made it possible to realize
intervals which are derived from such high primes that, not
only is it unlikely that anyone has ever worked with these intervals
before, it is also highly unlikely that anyone has ever heard them
or perhaps even imagined the feelings they create."

In 1966, Young and Zazeela pioneered the concept of the continuous
sound and light environment, and have since presented large-scale
sound and light productions in museums and galleries worldwide
for continuous periods from one week to five years, including
installations in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Moderna
Museet, Stockholm; documenta 5, Kassel; Kunstverein, Cologne.
Under a long-term commission from the Dia Art Foundation
(1979-85), Zazeela and Young collaborated in a six-year continuous
Dream House presentation set in a six-story building on
Harrison Street in New York City, featuring multiple interrelated
sound and light environments, exhibitions, performances,
research and listening facilities, and archives. Now in its tenth
year, MELA Foundation's Dream House: Seven+Eight
Years of Sound and Light, is Young and Zazeela's longest installation to
date.

In Minimalism:Origins (Indiana University Press, 1993),
Edward Strickland has written of their collaborative environments:
"Intense light [is] aimed through [colored] filters at quasicalligraphic
aluminum shapes hung by ultrafine filaments. The effect is a
unique and extraordinary transvaluation of perception: the
mobiles seem to hover unanchored, while the shadows they
cast in various hues attain an apparent solidity against the
light-dissolved walls equal to their literally palpable but
apparently disembodied sources. Like Young's music, to
which it serves as an almost uncanny complement, Zazeela's
work is predicated upon the extended duration necessary to
experience the nuances which are its essence."

Their one-year sound and light environment collaboration,
The Romantic Symmetry (over a 60 cycle base) in Prime
Time from 112 to 144 with 119 / Time Light Symmetry (Dia
Art Foundation, 22nd Street, NYC 1989), was described by
Village Voice critic Kyle Gann as "some of the strangest and
most forward-looking art New York has to offer." A 1990
Donguy Gallery, Paris, exhibition was purchased by the
French Cultural Ministry National Foundation of Contemporary
Art for permanent installation in a French museum.
Die Tageszeitung wrote about their 1992 DAAD Ruine der
Kï¿½nste, Berlin environment: "A longer stay in the Dream
House is necessary to experience the full effect. The mind
is calmed by the environment in a meditative way, and subtle
sound and light effects that are veiled at first sight then come
to the fore."

Of the current environment, Seven+Eight Years of Sound
and Light, Sandy McCroskey has written in 1/1 that
"...the multifaceted form of the 35-frequency construction
of Young's current installation is the principal reason it
changes hallucinogenically with every minute shift in
perspective and why the tones freeze in place as long as
one is perfectly still while the slightest gesture will startle
forth unnameable, wildly plumed melodies from the luxuriant
harmonic foliage... Zazeela's light sculptures have invariably,
teasingly refused to surrender their entire secret to photographic
reproduction, so much do they depend on the retinal impact of
activated photons in real time and so much do they exploit, in
ways analogous to Young's techniques, the creation of visual
combination tones and an accumulation of after-images."

http://www.lamonteyoung.com

Sorry, NYC!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@svpal.org>
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Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 6:10 PM
Subject: [tuning] Re: Dream House extended through June 21

> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> > La Monte Young Marian Zazeela
> > Dream House Sound and Light Environment
> >
> > Last three open dates this season:
> > Saturday, June 14
> > Thursday, June 19
> > Saturday, June 21
> > 2:00 PM to Midnight
> >
> > Contribution $4.00. Information 212-925-8270
> > MELA Foundation
> > 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor
> > between Franklin & White Streets in Tribeca
> > www.melafoundation.org
>
> Believe it or not, there is more than one city in the world, and even
> more than one Franklin, White or Church streets.
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Dream House extended through June 21

🔗David Beardsley <db@biink.com>

🔗Gene Ward Smith <gwsmith@svpal.org>

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