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The Just Alap Raga Ensemble

 

Pandit Pran Nath 91st Birthday Memorial Tribute

Two Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the MELA Dream House

Fridays, November 13 and 20, 2009, 9 pm

La Monte Young, voice
Marian Zazeela, voice
Jung Hee Choi, voice

Jon Catler, fretless sustainer guitar

Naren Budhkar, tabla
The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath from the Just Dreams CD


MELA Foundation Dream House
275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, between Franklin & White Streets in Tribeca
Friday Evenings, November 13 and 20, 2009, 9 pm

Admission $24.  MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $18.
Limited seating.  Advance reservations recommended.
  

Info and reservations:  212-219-3019; mail@melafoundation.org 



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Dream House Opens for the 2009-2010 Season – Our 17th Year

 

La Monte Young     Marian Zazeela

Dream House

Sound and Light Environment

Extended Exhibition at MELA Foundation

275 Church Street, 3rd Floor

between Franklin and White Streets in Tribeca

Thursday, September 24, 2009 continuing through Saturday, June 19, 2010

Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight

Contribution $5.00.  Information 212-925-8270; 212-219-3019

Subways: #1 train to Franklin Street / A, E / N, R / #6 trains to Canal Street

 

 

Dream House, 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, Fridays and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight.  Suggested contribution is $5.00.  The long term exhibition opened in Fall 1993 and will continue for this season through June 19, 2010, reopening again in September 2010.


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Jung Hee Choi

 

Studio View

 

Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest II



Thursday - Sunday, September 3rd - 12th, 2009, 6 pm - Midnight
EXTENDED: Thursday, Friday, & Saturday: September 17th, 18th, & 19th: 6pm - Midnight

 

MELA Foundation Dream House

275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY  10013

Between Franklin & White Streets in Tribeca

212-219-3019 or 212-925-8270

 

MELA Foundation presents a Studio View of Jung Hee Choi's recent works, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest II, Thursday through Saturday, September 3rd - 12th, 2009, 6pm - Midnight, in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, New York. Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest II features three multimedia installations, a series of drawings, videos and a sound environment including her new installation work Composition 2009 #1 created with needlepoint drawings on black wrap with video. Viewers experience the drawings as indiscernibly moving light from video projection glowing through the pinholes creating an abstract and analagous representation of Manifest Unmanifest.


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2008-2009 MELA CALENDAR



Pandit Pran Nath 13th Anniversary Memorial Tribute

 

Concert of Pre-recorded Tapes 

of

Pandit Pran Nath

performing 

Afternoon & Evening Ragas

 

with live commentary by

La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela

 

 

Sunday, May 31, 2009, 4:00 pm

 

MELA Foundation Dream House

275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY  10013

Between Franklin & White Streets in Tribeca

Admission $16.  MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $12.

Limited seating.  Reservations recommended. 

212-219-3019 or 212-925-8270

 

In celebration of Pandit Pran Nath’s extraordinary life and work, MELA Foundation presents a memorial tribute concert of the Master’s pre-recorded tapes of Afternoon and Evening Ragas on Sunday, May 31, 2009 at 4:00 pm in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York.  The concert is curated by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, who will present commentary on the music during the event.  The concert will continue for several hours.


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La Monte Young     Marian Zazeela

Dream House Sound and Light Environment

Guggenheim Museum

Exhibition The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia

Annex Gallery 4

 Friday, January 30 – Sunday, April 19, 2009

 

The La Monte Young   Marian Zazeela Dream House sound and light environment at the Guggenheim Museum opens Friday, January 30, 2009 in Annex Gallery 4 as the centerpiece of the exhibition, The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia. The exhibition continues through April 19, 2009.

This new site-specific Dream House installation is a rare counterpart to the 16-year ongoing Dream House installation at 275 Church Street.  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 addition to the ongoing sound and light environment, on March 14th and 21st the Guggenheim Museum and MELA Foundation will present two concerts of The Just Alap Raga Ensemble performing Young's composition Raga Sundara in the Dream House.  The ensemble includes Young, Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi and Da’ud Constant, voices; Jon Catler, sustainer electric guitar; Charles Curtis, cello; and Naren Budhkar, tabla.  March 28th will feature a concert by Young and Zazeela’s disciple Jung Hee Choi performing RICE, her site-specific multi-channel video sound installation with audio, “Composition in the style of La Monte Young’s 1960 sustained friction sounds” in a setting of Zazeela’s Imagic Light II.  All concerts are at 9pm.  The Church Street Dream House installation continues to be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 2pm to Midnight through the Summer Solstice in June.
 
Tickets for the March concerts are available from the Guggenheim box office (212.423.3587 or 212.423.3575). Due to limited seating in the gallery, tickets for the concerts will not be sold online.

 

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Pandit Pran Nath 90th Birthday Memorial Tribute Concert

Concert of Pre-recorded Tapes 

of

Pandit Pran Nath performing 

Evening Ragas

with

live commentary by

La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela

 

 

Saturday, November 1, 2008, 7 pm 

MELA Foundation Dream House

275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, New York, NY  10013

Between Franklin & White Streets in Tribeca

Admission $16.  MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $12.

Limited seating.  Reservations recommended.
212-219-3019 or 212-925-8270

 

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La Monte Young Marian Zazeela

Dream House

Sound and Light Environment

Extended Exhibition at MELA Foundation

275 Church Street, 3rd Floor

between Franklin and White Streets in Tribeca

Saturday, September 20, 2008 continuing through June 20, 2009

Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight

Contribution $5.00.  Information 212-925-8270, 212-219-3019      

 

Dream House, 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, Fridays, and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight.  Suggested contribution is $5.00.  The long-term exhibition opened in Fall 1993 and will continue through June 20, 2009, reopening again in September 2009.

 

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