MELA Foundation is pleased to announce two premiere performances of La Monte Young’s Chronos Kristalla from The Magic Chord x 4 at the Bourse de Commerce, to mark the closing of the exhibition Minimal, a major exhibition dedicated to Minimalist art. The work is performed in the museum’s Rotunda by a double string quartet led by Charles Curtis, within a luminous and visual environment designed by Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi.

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Two Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young and The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in celebration of La Monte Young’s 90th birthday, on October 11th and 14th, at 7:30 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor.

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To celebrate the launch of e-flux journal #156, a special issue dedicated to the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, we are very pleased to present a sound performance by sonic and visual artist Jung Hee Choi, on the evening of Tuesday, September 30, at e-flux.

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Two Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young and The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in tribute to the 29th Anniversary Memorial of Pandit Pran Nath and to the 1st Anniversary Memorial of Marian Zazeela on June 20th and 23rd, at 7:00 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor.

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A collaborative Sound and Light Environment by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi will be presented at Casa del Lago UNAM. The Mexican premiere of the Dream House, titled La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi Mexico 25 V 08 Dream House, will open on Thursday, May 8, 2025, and will run through Sunday, May 25, 2025.

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Dream House, a collaborative Sound and Light Environment, is presented in an extended exhibition by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi at MELA Foundation, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor. The long-term Dream House exhibition opened in Fall 1993; it will continue for this season through June 21, 2026. The environment is open Wednesday through Saturday, from 2 pm to 10 pm. Admission is $10.00.

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Join us for the final live concert of our extraordinary four-concert series, celebrating both the 89th birthday of La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) and the 31st consecutive year of the MELA Dream House Sound and Light environment. This program will feature two live performances, each utilizing the metallic bodies of the original instruments designed and built for Young by his early close collaborators, artists Walter De Maria (1935-2013) and Robert Morris (1931-2018).

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Performed by La Monte Young and Jung Hee Choi on stringed instruments along with the tape montage produced by Maxfield and special symmetrical forward-retrograde arrangement by Young

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As a special tribute, MELA Foundation presents the Dream House’s 31st Year and the La Monte Young 89th Birthday Celebration Live Performance of Jung Hee Choi’s 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 Sunday November 10, at 7:00 pm, in the Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY.

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MELA Foundation is pleased to present Studies in the Bowed Disc (1963) on Robert Morris Gong for La Monte Young (1963), performed by La Monte Young and Jung Hee Choi.

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Two Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young and The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in celebration of La Monte Young’s 89th birthday, October 17 and 19, at 7:30 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor.

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Two Concerts of Evening Ragas in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young with The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a memorial tribute honoring the great master of the tradition, Marian Zazeela (April 15, 1940 – March 28, 2024) on the occasion of her passing.

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MELA is pleased to present two live performances of La Monte Young, Studies in The Bowed Disc (1963), to celebrate the winter solstice. The Robert Morris Gong for La Monte Young is now restored to vibration mode in the Dream House after over 57 years of dormant silence since La Monte and Marian’s 1966 performance in New York City.

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Two live performances of Tonecycle for Blues Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Ensemble Version with 4:3 and 7:6 will be performed by The Sundara All-Star Band on October 12 and 14 in the La Monte Young Marian Zazeela Jung Hee Choi Dream House Sound and Light Environment.

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A collaborative Sound and Light Environment by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi will be presented at Galerie l·elac, Lausanne, Switzerland. This Swiss premiere of the Dream House, titled Lausanne Dream House, is presented as part of the 200th anniversary celebration of the ECAL (1821-2021) and the research project, HES-SO “Phantom Power”. The environment will open on Thursday, November 25, 2021 at 6 pm and continue through January 28, 2022.

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