Dream House 78' 17"
| Dream House 78' 17" | ||||
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| Studio album by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela | ||||
| Released | 1974 | |||
| Recorded | 1974 | |||
| Genre | Minimalist music, drone | |||
| Length | 78:17 | |||
| Label | Shandar | |||
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Originally released by the French label Shandar with the catalog number Shandar 83.510 and never re-released on CD, Dream House 78' 17" is one of the very few recordings ever made by minimalist composer La Monte Young, in this case together with his long-time companion Marian Zazeela and his group the Theatre of Eternal Music. The 78' 17" in the title consists of the duration of the record measured in minutes and seconds. This length, almost double what was then normal, was extremely unusual in its time. Young in the sleeve notes says that "Time is so important to the experiencing and understanding of the music in the record that every effort was made to make the record last as much as the original master tapes". Young thanks Mr. Michel Blancvillain who made it technically possible.
Cover, labels, design and calligraphy are by Marian Zazeela, and are drawn in her trademark magenta on a black background.
The two inner sides of the record jacket contain a comment by Shandar founder Daniel Caux, plus extensive original notes penned by La Monte Young himself about the music, its structure and its history. In 2016 Aguirre Records reissued the album on vinyl in a limited-edition, remastered form.
Personnel: Theatre of Eternal Music
Three sine waves.
The titles of the two compositions consist of the date, time and place of the recording.
By 1963 La Monte Young had formulated the concept of a Dream House, a term which appears in the album title and which defines an artistic "work that would be played continuously and ultimately exist as a 'living organism with a life and tradition of its own'".
The Shandar record includes the music for one of Young's Dream Houses.
Young's first continuous electronic sound environment was created in his loft on Church Street, NYC in September 1966 (where he still lives and where the Dream House still exists) with sine wave generators. This environment was maintained almost continuously from September 1966 to January 1970, being turned off only to listen to "other music" and to study the contrast between extended periods in it and periods of silence. Young and Zazeela worked, sang and lived in it and studied the effects on themselves and visitors.
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