2005-2006 MELA CALENDAR
The Just Alap Raga Ensemble
Pandit Pran Nath 10th
Anniversary Memorial Tribute
Concerts in the
MELA Dream House
Saturdays, June 17 and
24, 9 pm
La Monte Young,
voice
Marian Zazeela,
voice
Jung Hee Choi,
voice
Da'ud Constant, voice
Brad Catler, 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
Saturdays, June 17 and 24, 2006, 9 pm
Admission $24. MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $18.
Limited seating. Advance reservations recommended.
Two Concerts of Evening Ragas in the contemporary Kirana Style of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela with The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a memorial tribute honoring Pandit Pran Nath on the 10th anniversary of his passing, Saturdays, June 17 and 24, at 9 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor. PLEASE NOTE: The Dream House will be closed on Thursdays and Saturdays, June 15, 17, 22, and 24 to prepare for the scheduled concerts.
Two Telecasts from the MELA Archives
Pandit Pran Nath
Ragas Pat Dipak & Raga Darbari “91 X 18 PM NYC”
Mantra TV
Fridays, June 9 & 16, 2006, 9:30 pm
Time Warner Cable Channel 57
RCN Cable Channel 109
Without Cable Box Channel 69
Digital Channel 85
May 27 – September 25: Music & Light Box installation, Summer of Love, Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool
September 14 - December 31: Dream House installation,
2005 Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
September 17 & 24: Trio for Strings, Just Intonation Version, World
Premiere
The Theatre of Eternal Music String Ensemble, MELA Foundation Dream House,
9 pm
October 14: Performance Tribute for La Monte’s 70th
Birthday
Jung Hee Choi, Rice, a video and sound installation
audio Composition in the style of La Monte Young's 1960 sustained
friction sounds
MELA Foundation Dream House, 8 pm, Installation continues to 12
midnight
The Just Alap Raga Ensemble performances
October 29
November 5
MELA Foundation Dream House, 9 pm
Waking States
Concert series / Charles Curtis, cello
December 5: Eliane
Radigue Naldjorlak
Tenri Cultural Institute, 9 pm
December 7: Alvin Lucier
Cello and Pure Waves
Diapason, 9 pm
December 14: Morton
Feldman Patterns in a Chromatic Field
Double Knot Carpet Gallery, 9 pm
waking states
charles curtis interprets
la monte young
/ éliane radigue / alvin lucier / terry jennings / morton feldman
December 3-17, 2005
New York
A survey of singular works for solo cello, presented in seven concerts over fifteen days in intimate New York venues: works created for cellist Charles Curtis by La Monte Young, Eliane Radigue and Alvin Lucier; a major composition by early Minimalist Terry Jennings; and Morton Feldman's "Patterns in a Chromatic Field". These mostly concert-length works treat time, frequency and human experience as an undivided state of awareness; over the long durations of the individual works, and the series, sound elicits unique qualities of sentience, focus and attentiveness.
Waking States lays out, first and foremost, the special body of interpretive work developed by Curtis as one of the key performers of American experimental music. Waking States invites the listener to participate in a sequence of intense perceptual experiences, unfolding as complementary stations in an immersive whole.
La Monte
Young Marian Zazeela
Just Charles & Cello
in The Romantic Chord (2002-2005)
in a setting of
Abstract #1
(2003) from Quadrilateral Phase
Angle Traversals with
Dream Light
for solo cello, pre-recorded
cello drones and light projection
3 hours, 30 minutes
An extraordinary solo of more than three hours continuous length, and the only solo work composed by La Monte Young for a performer other than himself. Combining elements of Young's magnum opus The Well-Tuned Piano with raga and Dream Music, and a beautiful, subtly changing light projection by Marian Zazeela, this is one of the definitive statements of these great artists' work. Charles Curtis is the leading intepreter of Young's music; in performance he realizes the highly abstract just intonation interval ratios with unprecedented precision. Of Curtis' premiere performance at the MaerzMusik festival in Berlin 2004, Wire magazine writes: "Playing to a hypnotic cello drone issuing from the loudspeakers beside him, he built up a shimmering minimalistic tableau that made for compulsive listening throughout his three hour performance."
These performances represent the American avant-premiere, following World Premieres and performances in Paris, Lyon, Berlin, Dijon and Polling, Germany.
December 3, 10, 17 /
Saturdays at 8
MELA Foundation Dream House
275 Church Street (between Franklin
and White)
$24 / $18
Reservations: mail@melafoundation.org
212-925-8270
CELEBRATING MELA's 20th YEAR & La Monte Young's 70th BIRTHDAY YEAR
The Just Alap Raga Ensemble
Pandit Pran Nath 87th
Birthday Memorial Tribute
Concerts in the
MELA Dream House
Saturdays, October 29 and
November 5, 9 pm
La Monte Young,
voice
Marian Zazeela,
voice
Jung Hee Choi,
voice
Da'ud Constant, voice
Rose Okada, sarangi
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
Saturdays, October 29 and November 5, 2005, 9 pm
Admission $24. MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $18.
Limited seating. Advance reservations recommended.
Two Concerts of Evening Ragas in the contemporary Kirana Style of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela with The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a memorial tribute honoring Pandit Pran Nath on his 87th birthday, Saturdays, October 29 and November 5, at 9 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor. PLEASE NOTE: The Dream House will be closed on Thursdays and Saturdays, October 27, 29, November 3 and 5 because of the scheduled concerts.
Admission $24. MELA Members, Seniors, Student
ID, $18.
Limited seating. Advance reservations recommended. 646-613-8328,
212-925-8270
As a special tribute, MELA Foundation presents the La Monte Young 70th Birthday Celebration Live Performance by Jung Hee Choi of her Composition in the style of La Monte Young's 1960 sustained friction sounds in a setting of her video sound installation, RICE, in collaboration with Marian Zazeela's environment, Imagic Light, on Friday, October 14, at 8:00 pm, in the Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY. An additional celebratory tribute concert will be presented on Wednesday, November 9, at 8:00 pm. Concert Admission $24; $18, MELA Members, Seniors and Students with ID. The RICE video sound installation will be open on Wednesdays and Fridays, November 11, 16, 18, 23 & 25, from 7 pm to 12 midnight. Admission $4.
RICE will be telecast on Friday, October 14 at 9:30 pm on Mantra TV, MNN Channel 57-TWC and channel 109-RCN.
Choi's May-June 2003 presentation of RICE video sound performance and installation set in Marian Zazeela's Dream House Imagic Light environment was chosen as one of The 10 Best of 2003 in the December 2003 Artforum.
The Theatre of Eternal Music String Ensemble
led by Charles Curtis
Gascia Ouzounian, violin and viola
Erik Ulman, violin and viola
Charles Curtis, cello
Reynard Rott, cello
MELA Foundation Dream House
275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, Between Franklin & White Streets in
Tribeca
Saturday, September 17, 2005, 9 pm
Saturday, September 24, 2005, 9 pm
Admission $24. MELA Members, Seniors, Student ID, $18.
Limited seating. Advance reservations recommended.
646.613.8328
Please conact MELA by email (mail@melafoundation.org) or phone as soon as possible regarding ticket availability.
On Saturdays, September 17 and 24 at 9 pm, MELA Foundation presents two world premiere concerts of the Just Intonation Version (1984-2001-2005) of La Monte Young’s classic Minimalist masterpiece, Trio for Strings (1958), performed by The Theatre of Eternal Music String Ensemble led by Charles Curtis, cello, with Gascia Ouzounian and Erik Ulman, violins and violas and Reynard Rott, cello. Please note: The Dream House will reopen for the 2005-06 season on Thursday, September 29, from 2 pm to Midnight; then it will continue during our regular hours, Thursdays and Saturdays, 2 pm to Midnight, through June 17, 2006.