A collaborative Sound and Light Environment by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi will be presented at Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul. The Korean premiere of the Dream House, which is also the first Dream House installation ever presented in Asia, titled La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi Leeum 26 IV 29 Seoul Dream House, opens Thursday, April…

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,…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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,…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”.…

As part of her solo exhibition Manifest, Unmanifest XII at The Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, Jung Hee Choi will discuss her work and process with the legendary artist La Monte Young and Dia curator Megan Witko, who has worked closely with both Choi and Young on all of their Dia projects since 2015.

Manifest Unmanifest XII presents a site-specific sound and light environment in which various interdependent media collectively create an intersubjective space as a unified continuum. This twelfth edition in Choi’s series of environmental compositions exploring the concept of “Manifest, Unmanifest” features six recent works including large-scale multimedia installations, light point drawings and a sound environment, which completely…

April 7 – August 8, 2022 Bundeskunsthalle, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany Helmut-Kohl-Allee 4, Bonn 53113, Germany

MELA is pleased to present a live concert performance of La Monte Young’s Birthday Blues in celebration of Young/s 86th birthday and the 180-degree half cycle of Marian’s 81st birthday. The Theatre of Eternal Music Ensemble will perform this historic and extraordinary piece, which is one of Young’s earliest works in a new configuration.

MELA Foundation presents a collaborative Sound and Light Environment by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, an extended exhibition at Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor. The environment is open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 2 PM to midnight. Admission is $10.00.

November 12, 2020 at 7 PM MELA Foundation Dream House 275 Church Street, New York Concert of Pre-recorded Tapes India’s Master Vocalist Raga Darbari Curated and with Commentary byLa Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 7 pm (EST)Live Streaming @ MELAFree with RSVP Program Notes

December 14 and 19, 2019 at 9:00 PM MELA Foundation Dream House 275 Church Street, New York The Sundara All-Star Band La Monte Young • voice Jung Hee Choi • voice Jon Catler • fretless guitar Hansford Rowe • fretless bass Naren Budhkar • tabla Jung Hee Choi Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version…

October 13, 2019 at 7:00 PM Studio of La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela 275 Church Street, New York The Sundara All Star Band La Monte Young · voice Jung Hee Choi · voice Jon Catler · fretless guitar Hansford Rowe · fretless bass Naren Budhkar · tabla Jung Hee Choi Tonecycle Base 30 Hz,…

As part of her solo exhibition Black: Trans: Maya: Light, Jung Hee Choi will be joined in conversation with Jay Sanders, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Artists Space.

Choi’s solo exhibition Black: Trans: Maya: Light at the Korea Society focuses on her series of light point drawings, graphite drawings, and etchings. Utilizing both traditional and experimental techniques, Choi presents mesmerizing images that capture and transfigure light. In the process of assessing and defining the nature of reality, Choi’s inquiry focuses on how we perceive being…

Il Suono in Mostra, Galleria Spazioersetti, Udine, Italy presents the works Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest Udine; Rice multichannel installation, Light Point Drawing #31, and sound environment The Tone-field: perceptible arithmetical relations in a cycle of eight Indian raga scale permutations, 19 VI 1 – 19 VI IX Udine by Jung Hee Choi.

MELA Foundation presents Dream House Sound and Light Environment, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi; Environmental Composition 2017 No. 1 : Light Point Drawings Nos. 27, 28, 29 and 30 , Color (CNN) live realization, and Sound Environment , TONECYCLE BASE 30 HZ, 2:3:7, The Linear Superposition Of 108 Sine Wave Frequencies Set In Ratios Based On The Harmonics 2, 3…

Three midday concerts of Raga Vrindabani Sarang in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by The Just Alap Raga Ensemble with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi and Naren Budhkar in a memorial tribute to Pandit Pran Nath on the 21st anniversary of his passing, Sunday, July 1; Saturday, July 7 and…

MELA Foundation presents a collaborative Sound and Light Environment by Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, at Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor. The environment is open Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays from 2:00 PM to Midnight. Admission is $10.00. This long-term exhibition will open Wednesday, July 25, 2018.

MELA is honored to present the first morning raga concerts by The Just Alap Raga Ensemble on the occasion of Marian Zazeela’s 78th birthday. Two morning concerts of Raga Bhairava in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by The Just Alap Raga Ensemble with La Monte Young, Marian…

Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by The Just Alap Raga Ensemble with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi and Naren Budhkar in a memorial tribute in honor of Pandit Pran Nath’s 99th Birthday, Fridays, November 3, 10 and…

As part of the Choi’s exhibition Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest XI at the MELA Foundation Dream House, three 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 September 30, October 6 and October 14. The three legendary vocalists—La Monte Young, Marian…

MELA Foundation presents the annual exhibition of Jung Hee Choi’s Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest XI from August 17 through October 14, 2017 in the MELA Foundation Dream House in conjunction with a series of live performances and an unprecedented 24-hour cycle of her composition The Tone-field.

Three midday concerts of Raga Vrindabani Sarang in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by The Just Alap Raga Ensemble with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi and Naren Budhkar in a memorial tribute to Pandit Pran Nath on the 21st anniversary of his passing, Sunday, July 1; Saturday, July 7 and…

November 4, 12 and 18, 2016 at 7 PM MELA Foundation Dream House 275 Church Street, New York The Just Alap Raga Ensemble 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…

October 7, 2016 Ulsan Culture & Arts Center 200 Beonyeong-ro, Nam-gu, Ulsan, South Korea Sound installation with projection mapping performance

2016 JEJU International Experimental Arts Festival Jeju Island, South Korea Sound installation with projection mapping performances

September 23, October 1, and October 7, 2016 at 9 PM Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Foundation 417 Lafayette St 2nd Floor, New York A Raga Lesson, performance (app. 60 min) September 28, 2016; Asia Contemporary Art Week Mid-Season Celebration at Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Foundation, New York

As part of Choi’s Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest X exhibition at the MELA Dream House, three 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. While traversing the common ground of improvisational phrases rooted in Indian raga, American blues techniques,…

MELA Foundation presents the tenth annual exhibition of Jung Hee Choi’s Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest X from August 18 through October 8 in the MELA Foundation Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, New York.

The Sundara All-Star Band—composed of La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Jung Hee Choi, voices; Jon Catler, fretless guitar; Brad Catler, fretless bass; and Naren Budhkar, tabla—will perform Choi’s composition Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with 4:3 and 7:6 in a World Premiere of the ensemble as part of the Dia 15 VI 13…

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Dream Festival that was organized by Dia Art Foundation in 1975 and demonstrating the institution’s commitment to long-term support for artists, Dia presents a newly acquired, site-specific iteration of Dream House by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi at 545 West 22nd Street in New York City.…

In conjunction with the Dia 15 VI 13 545 West 22 Street Dream House Sound and Light Environment by La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi and presented by Dia Art Foundation, The Just Alap Raga Ensemble—Young, Zazeela and Choi, voices; with Naren Budhkar, tabla—will perform Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary…

Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (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 in honor of Pandit Pran Nath’s 96th birthday, Saturday Evenings, November 1, 8 and 15, 2014, at 9…

In the transcendent setting of Jung Hee Choi’s exhibition Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VIII, MELA Foundation is presenting two live concert performances of her composition, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with 3:4 and 6:7. La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, voices, perform with 77 sine wave frequencies on Saturday evenings,…

MELA Foundation presents the eighth annual solo exhibition of Jung Hee Choi’s Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VIII from August 21 through September 20, 2014 in the MELA Dream House.

Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (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 to Pandit Pran Nath on the 18th anniversary of his passing, Saturday Evenings, June 7, 14 and 21, 2014 at 9 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light…

Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (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 in honor of Pandit Pran Nath’s 95th birthday, Saturday Evenings, October 26, November 2 and 9, 2013, at…

Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (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 in honor of Pandit Pran Nath’s 94th birthday, Saturday Evenings, November 3, 10 and 17, 2012, at 9 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light…

In the transcendent setting of Jung Hee Choi’s exhibition Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VII, MELA Foundation is presenting two live concert performances of her composition, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version, with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, voices, and sine wave frequencies, on Saturday evenings, September 7 and 14 at…

MELA Foundation presents the eighth annual solo exhibition of Jung Hee Choi’s Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VII from August 15 through September 14, 2013 in the MELA Dream House.

Choi’s A Raga Lesson film (16mm, 12 minutes) is presented as part of the Thinking Media III exhibition at Chungmu Art Hall Gallery.

Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music will be performed by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela with The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in tribute to the 17th anniversary of Pandit Pran Nath, June 1, 8 and 15, 2013 in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275 Church Street, 3rd…

Jung Hee Choi presents Environmental Composition 2011 #2, a multimedia installation consisting of the works Light Point Drawings #5 & #6, RWV for LPD v.2 and Tonecycle Base 60 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version at FRAC Franche-Comté as part of the exhibition Des Mondes Possibles

In the transcendent setting of Jung Hee Choi’s exhibition Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest VII, MELA Foundation is presenting two live concert performances of her composition, Tonecycle Base 30 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version, with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, voices, and sine wave frequencies, on Saturday evenings, September 8 and 15 at…

Following the Pandit Pran Nath Memorial Tribute Tour 2012 with five sold-out concerts in Berlin, Karlsruhe and Polling, Bavaria, The Just Alap Raga Ensemble featuring La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, and Jung Hee Choi, accompanied by Naren Budhkar, will present three concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (style) of North Indian Classical Music.  In tribute to Pandit…

March 19, 24, and 31, 2012 / April 7 and 14, 2012 ZKM / Kunst im Regenbogenstadl Karlsruhe, Germany / Polling, Germany The Just Alap Raga Ensemble La Monte Young · voice Marian Zazeela · voice Jung Hee Choi · voice Naren Budhkar · tabla

Light Point Drawings #7 & #8, RWV for LPD, Tonecycle Base 60 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version

December 6, 2011 to January 20, 2012 ERBA de Besançon France (Light Point Drawing #5, Light Point Drawing #6, RWV for LPD) Tonecycle Base 65 Hz, 2:3:7; RICE; AUM (incense calligraphy); Color (CNN)

Three Evening Concerts of Raga Darbari in the contemporary Kirana gharana (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 in honor of Pandit Pran Nath’s 93rd birthday, Saturday Evenings, October 29, November 5 and 12, 2011, at 9 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream…

Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IV features three large-scale multimedia installations, a series of drawings, videos and a new sound environment, Tonecycle Base 65 Hz, 2:3:7 Vocal Version with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi improvising over the implied tonic that is imperceptibly changing.

MELA Foundation presents Jung Hee Choi’s Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest IV, illuminating various aspects of recent works and their relationships across different media. August 25 – September 17, 2011, Thursday through Saturday, 6 pm to midnight, MELA Dream House.

June 11, 18, and 25, 2011, at 9 PM MELA Foundation Dream House 275 Church Street, New York La Monte Young · voice Marian Zazeela · voice Jung Hee Choi · voice Naren Budhkar · tabla The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath from the Just Dreams CD

June 9 to 10, 2011 GLOCAL Media Art Festival Chungju, Korea

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 Marian Zazeela with The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a memorial tribute in honor of Pandit Pran Nath’s 92nd birthday, Saturday Evenings, November 6 and 13, 2010, at 9 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275…

MELA Foundation presents a Studio View of Jung Hee Choi’s recent works, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest II, Thursday through Saturday, August 21st – September 11th, 2010, 6pm – Midnight, in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd Floor, New York.

July 24 – August 1, 2010 Seoul Art Space Seogyo, Seoul, Korea video sound installation

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 Marian Zazeela with the Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a memorial tribute to Pandit Pran Nath on the 14th anniversary of his passing, Saturday Evenings, June 12 and 19, 2010 at 9 pm in…

June 3 – 30, 2010 Konkuk Media Art Center / Gallery Artrang Chungju, Korea / Seoul, Korea

December 18 – 20, 2009 CODE Bangkok

December 10, 2009 – February 19, 2010 Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery 417 Lafayette St 2nd Floor, New York (Spirit, Tonecycle Base 65 Hz, 2:3:7), multimedia installation: video, sound at Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York, Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Korean Cultural Service; Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art…

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 Marian Zazeela with The Just Alap Raga Ensemble in a memorial tribute in honor of Pandit Pran Nath’s 91st birthday, Friday Evenings, November 13 and 20, 2009, at 9 pm in the MELA Foundation Dream House light environment, 275…

October 28, 2009 Park Avenue Armory New York The Just Alap Raga Ensemble La Monte Young · voice Marian Zazeela · voice Jung Hee Choi · voice

MELA Foundation’s Studio View presentation of Jung Hee Choi’s recent works, Ahata Anahata, Manifest Unmanifest II, has been extended for one additional week.  The exhibition will be open Thursday through Saturday, September 17 – 19, 2009, from 6 pm to midnight, in the MELA Dream House, 275 Church Street, 3rd floor, New York.

September 2009 Seoul, Korea video and sound installation

May 10 – 18, 2009 Contemporary Art Week New York

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

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.

December 2 – 6, 2008 Scope/Art Asia Miami video and sound installation