source file: mills2.txt Date: 96-12-31 00:03:39 EST From: iann@inch.com (Ian Nagoski) Hey, David - Would you do me a big favor and post this to the tuning list? Thanks! MELA Foundation Inc. 275 Church Street New York, NY 10013 212-925-8270 January 1997 Mela Foundation is seeking interns for unpaid volunteer positions of Monitor for Dream House exhibition. Dream House: Seven 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. Young and Zazeela characterize the Sound and Light Environment as a "time installation measured by a setting of continuous frequencies in sound and light." POSITION: MONITOR for DREAM HOUSE exhibition (Volunteer Interns) Hours: Exhibition is open Thursdays and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight. Time slots of four to six hours need to be filled on those days. Description: Monitor will open or close exhibition; turn on electronic sound equiptment and turn up light environment; make sure all technical equiptment is running properly; greet visitors; distribute information; answer questions concerning the environment; sell books and recordings. Contact: Call Ian Nagoski, MELA Foundation, 212-925-8270, or email at iann@inch.com. If you call, leave a message on the answering machine with your phone number and times we can reach you. Or come to 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, Thursdays and Saturdays, 2:00 PM to Midnight, and experience the environment and speak to the monitor on duty. Press Commentary on Exhibition: "... the multifaceted form of the 35-frequency construction of Young's current installation is the principal reason it changes hallucinogenically with every shift in perspective and why the tones freeze in place as long as one is perfectly still while the slightest gesture will startle forth unnamable, wildly plumed melodies from the luxuriant harmonic foliage. Zazeela's light sculptures have invariably, teasingly refused to surrender their entire secret to photographic reprodution, so much do they depend on the retinal impact of activated photons in real time and so much do they exploit, in ways analagous to Young's techniques, the creation of visual combination tones and an accumulation of after-images." -- Sandy McCroskey, 1/1, The Journal of the Just Intonation Network "Young's newest sine-tone sculpture shimmers and swirls as you walk around the room and, amazingly, when you freeze, it does too. Stay at least long enough to stare at Zazeela's Imagic Light and Ruine Window, which will imprint your retina with blues and purples you haven't felt before." -- Kyle Gann, The Village Voice "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 corner, or just standing still. Or lie on the floor and allow the sound to float you into heaven, slide you into hell, or transport you wherever you want to go. See if you agree with those who call Young's sound sculpture a precursor of ambient music. Zazeela's light installation, "Imagic Light," offers an intriuging complement to the sound, even though it is equally effective when viewed in silence. Using pairs of colored lights and suspended aluminum mobiles cut out 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 perspective the infinite number of symmetrical patterns in the room." -- David Farneth, Metrobeat Music Eternal Light Art ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 05:55 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA06186; Wed, 1 Jan 1997 05:58:17 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA06079 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id UAA21343; Tue, 31 Dec 1996 20:58:06 -0800 Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 20:58:06 -0800 Message-Id: <970101045521_75023.2426_GHJ56-1@CompuServe.COM> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu