Track listing Dream House 78' 17"

1 track listing

1.1 side one
1.2 side two
1.3 sleeve notes synopsis

track listing
side one

personnel: theatre of eternal music

la monte young - voice , sine waves
marian zazeela - voice
jon hassell - trumpet
garrett list - trombone

side two

three sine waves.

the titles of 2 compositions consist of date, time , place of recording.

sleeve notes synopsis

by 1963 la monte young had formulated concept of dream house, term appears in album title , defines artistic work played continuously , exist living organism life , tradition of own .

the shandar record includes music 1 of young s dream houses.

young s first continuous electronic sound environment created in loft on church street, new york city in september 1966 (where still lives , dream house still exists) sine wave generators. environment maintained continuously september 1966 january 1970, being turned off listen other music , study contrast between extended periods in , periods of silence. young , zazeela worked, sang , lived in , studied effects on , visitors.

in july 1970 model short-term dream house displayed public @ galerie heiner friedrich in munich, germany. later, model dream houses presented in various locations of europe , united states.

the work presented within these dream houses consisted of total environmental set of frequency structures in media of sound , light . sound produced both sine wave generators , theatre of eternal music, last playing @ prescribed intervals.

zazeela designed 2 light sources produce frequencies in light medium: continuous installation of floating sculptures , color sources, , series of slides entitled ornamental lightyears tracery .

the first composition, 13 73 5:35 - 6:14:03 pm nyc part of map of 49 s dream 2 systems of eleven sets of galactic intervals ornamental lightyears tracery , section of longer work called tortoise, dreams , journeys . in it, 3 sine waves , members of theatre of eternal music play together. according young, lack of harmonic content of sine waves makes accompanying them regular instruments , human players extremely difficult.

the second composition, drift study 14 vii 73 9:27:27-10:06:41 pm nyc (39 14 ) , played entirely sine wave generators. frequencies , voltages of sine waves generators determined , tuned la monte young using oscillators custom-designed sound engineer robert adler generate specific frequencies , voltages of great stability. sine waves produced such interfere each other, creating changes of volume both in time , space can experienced either walking within room or staying put. if 1 chooses walk, change sound experience of other people in room moving molecules of air.

a dream house exists @ mela foundation on 275 church street, new york, , open public.