La Monte Young's Drugless Trip, Dream House, Is Back In Business
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Location
The Dream House
275 Church Street
United States
La Monte Young's "Dream House" has reopened after being closed for the summer. The Dream House is, simply put, a large lavender room with 32 speakers emitting sine waves in various locations throughout. As one moves around the room, different tones are emphasized, and if one stays in the room long enough, aural and visual hallucinations do occur. For a fuller description, Stylus magazine has written a nice review.
This ongoing piece, which has been in place for seventeen years, is only one minimalist masterpiece from La Monte Young, who has been deeply involved in New York arts since the sixties, as a peer of legends like Phillip Glass and Terry Riley. Some of La Monte Young's other works can be viewed online at the excellent Ubuweb database.
Comments
sweeeet
I am totally checking this out. Reminds me of some of James Turrell's stuff, particularly "Gasworks" ... if I recall a specific combination of colors flashed at rhythms coinciding with brain synapses caused you to visual something psychedelic. There were also blanks so that you wouldn't have a brain overload. Then someone pirated their experience, put it into the backdrop of some Pokemon after removing the rhythm and blanks and it was the cause of some crazy amount of epileptic reactions in Japan.
http://www.post-gazette.com/ae/20020526turrell0526fnp3.asp