#marian zazeela

[electrospective]

La Monte Young at the Judson Hall, Marian Zazeela 1962

[werkboileddown]

“Through my interest in abstract calligraphy I conceived the idea of borrowing from the forms of letters by taking elemental shapes already existing in cursive writing and manipulating them to create interlocking patterns.” 

“The writhing rising out of the word is a dragon devouring itself. Like a cat cleaning her fur the tongue of the word licks its scales with flame and the body of the word ignites and takes the shape of its destruction. . . .The second dream is the story of its past life, but it does not recognize itself in its previous form. Several lives later the dream recurs. Several dreams later the life recurs.”

– Marian Zazeela, The Soul of the Word, 1963

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Marian Zazeela

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Marian Zazeela

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rest in peace, marian zazeela

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DreamHouse

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Dream House de La Monte Young y Marian Zazeela. Instalada en varias localizaciones desde su creación en 1969. Imagen recuperada de https://fulmine.art/dream-house/

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r.i.p. Marian Zazeela

“But the writhing rising out of the word is a dragon devouring itself. Like a cat cleaning her fur the tongue of the word licks its scales with flame and the body of the word ignites and takes the shape of its destruction, which must be perfect and lie perfectly still in the center of the page.”

— Marian Zazeela, ‘The Soul of the Word’*

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Music from elsewhere and beyond for you to tune in, turn on, freak out, and go deep into the heart of creation at the center of the universe. Or something. 10pm tonight on WGXC, 90.7-FM in the Hudson Valley and streaming 24/7 at wgxc.org or UPDATE: download the podcast at the link below

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 136 - 2024.04.03 https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/asfrfb [ ^ click for download ^ ]

PLAYLIST

1) Alice Coltrane - “Journey in Satchidananda” from THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2024/03/21/alice-coltrane-the-carnegie-hall-concert/

(underbed throughout:) Pinchas Gurevich - “Whataboutism”

2) Gus Vali - “Telly” from CHIMERA - A FANTASY IN JAZZ ROCK MID-EAST SOUNDS https://www.discogs.com/release/2391349-Gus-Vali-Chimera

3) John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars - “I Talk to the Spirits” from FULL CIRCLE https://www.discogs.com/release/4433050-John-Sinclair-His-Blues-Scholars-Featuring-Wayne-Kramer-Full-Circle

4) Jesse Paul Miller - “Ancient Wave Travelers” from DREAM BOXES AND PSYCHIC MICROPHONES • RADIO AND OTHER SOUNDS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA 2008 - 2017 https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/dream-boxes-and-psychic-microphones-radio-and-other-sounds-from-southeast-asia-2008-2017

5) Ron English - “Bees” from JOHN SINCLAIR PRESENTS DETROIT ARTISTS WORKSHOP https://strut.bandcamp.com/album/john-sinclair-presents-detroit-artists-workshop

6) Dimi Mint Abba and Nema Mint Choueikh w/Luleide ould Dendenni, Mohamed ould Deddah ould Choueikh, and Mohamed ould Seymali - excerpt from MOROCCAN SAHRAOUI EVENT (A MYSTERY TAPE FROM MAURITANIA) https://hivemindrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-mystery-tape-from-mauritania

7) Khruangbin - “May Ninth” from A LA SALA https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/a-la-sala

8) Street Musician of Yogyakarta - “Asoi” from STREET MUSICIANS OF YOGYAKARTA https://mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/street-musicians-of-yogyakarta

9) Kyle Tierce - “Interlocking Questions” from THE FIVE FINGERS OF A DOG (ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK) https://superspectrum.bandcamp.com/album/the-five-fingers-of-a-dog-original-soundtrack

10) Jesse Paul Miller - “Radio Cambodia” from DREAM BOXES AND PSYCHIC MICROPHONES • RADIO AND OTHER SOUNDS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA 2008 - 2017 https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/dream-boxes-and-psychic-microphones-radio-and-other-sounds-from-southeast-asia-2008-2017

11) Nadah El Shazly & Elvin Brandhi - CAIRO ???” from POLLUTION OPERA https://pollutionopera.bandcamp.com/album/pollution-opera

12) Ludwig Berger - “Apparent Heart” from SPECIES LONELINESS https://ludwigberger.bandcamp.com/album/species-loneliness

13) Faust - “Stay or Leave” from MOMENTAUFNAHME IV https://faust.bandcamp.com/album/momentaufnahme-iv-2

14) La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - “31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM (a section of Map of 49's Dream the Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery)” from 31 VII 69 10:26-10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM THE VOLGA DELTA (aka THE BLACK ALBUM) https://www.melafoundation.org/lmy.htm https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/la-monte-young-marian-zazeela

15) Ragnar Johnson & Jessica Mayer – “Mo-mo” from SPIRIT CRY FLUTES AND BAMBOO JEWS HARPS FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA : EASTERN HIGHLANDS & MADANG https://ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-cry-flutes-and-bamboo-jews-harps-from-papua-new-guinea-eastern-highlands-and-madang

16) Lea Bertucci - “Of Shadow and Substance (excerpt)” from OF SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE https://leabertucci.bandcamp.com/album/of-shadow-and-substance

17) John Bence - Raphael, Archangel of Tiphareth” from ARCHANGELS https://johnbence.bandcamp.com/album/archangels

18) Jesse Paul Miller - “Radio Wat Thailand I&II” from DREAM BOXES AND PSYCHIC MICROPHONES • RADIO AND OTHER SOUNDS FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA 2008 - 2017 https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/dream-boxes-and-psychic-microphones-radio-and-other-sounds-from-southeast-asia-2008-2017

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Marian Zazeela

Photo Credit…via Zazeela family

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Angus MacLise, the first drummer for the Velvet Underground, was a poet, composer, and a member of The Theatre of Eternal Music alongside La Monte Young.

The "Tapes" 3CD Box is the first-ever reissue of a 3-cassette compilation that Pleasure Editions originally released in 2015, limited to only 100 copies.

The "Tapes" compilation features excerpts from the archives of the Angus MacLise Papers, which are held at Columbia University Library. The archives contain over 100 hours of reel-to-reel tape recordings of live improvised music, theatrical performances, and sound experiments created by MacLise and his associates during the 1960s and 1970s.

released March 3, 2023

Jim O'Rourke completed a new sound restoration and mastering of the recordings in 2023. The 3CD box comes with a miniature poster, a sheet of track list, and each CD comes with a paper sleeve which reproduces the original cassette sleeve artwork.

ジム・オルークによる2023年リマスタリング版を収録(カセット版とは異なる正確なトラック分割を行いました)。 オリジナルアートワークを使用したディスクスリーヴ、貼箱仕��、ポスター、トラックリスト付き。

----------------------- Special thanks to Hetty MacLise, Ossian MacLise, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Sheldon Rochlin, Ira Cohen, Rob Ward, Jim O’Rourke, Johan Kugelberg, Tim Barnes, Erica Barnes, Dia Art Foundation,and Robert Bielecki.

This official release is authorized by DREAMWEAPON New York, a project of the MacLise Family Estate. dreamweaponnewyork.com

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La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela

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John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara (1965)（2000）

　彼等が異文化の東と遭遇するなら初めて見た新奇性をうたがわないという事です。音を捉える心の現象の世界に波うつは十百千とさまざまの習慣的なリズム、狂いはないのか正確なのか知覚はうずうずし、深さを求めては線の冒険へ立つ。持続とは音を記憶と体験に置き昏睡にへばりつく反吐と泥が混融すれば今一度はらわたに独占する疑問。それから探し出せたのは良いとしても、何かけたいくそ悪くまたその中へ放り込むような、そういうことなんです。部屋を片付けて静かに何も黙っていればよかったのです私。

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La Monte Young - Composition 1960 No.7

Incredible piece of La Monte Young, La Monte Young is an American avant-garde composer and artist. He is considered one of the founders of minimal music and has had a significant influence on the development of drone music.

“Composition 1960 No.7″ is considered an early example of minimal music, and is one of Young's most famous compositions. It is a simple and repetitive piece, consisting of a single sustained chord, played on a piano or other keyboard instrument. The chord is held for an extended period of time, typically lasting several hours.

The piece is usually performed in a concert setting, with the performer seated at a piano or other keyboard instrument, and the audience is free to come and go as they please. It is often accompanied by a light installation created by Young's wife and collaborator, artist Marian Zazeela, which is designed to create a specific ambiance and enhance the listening experience.

Young's "Composition 1960 No. 7" is considered an important piece of minimal music and has had a significant influence on the development of drone music and ambient music. It is considered as a pioneer work in the field of long-duration music and its repetitive nature is seen as a way of creating a meditative state for the listener.

The piece is performed on a Fostex M80 playing 8 tracks, one note each (half played with doublebass, half with sopran sax, half B, half F#). Uher SG561 is playng the chord with Spitfire Audio's LAB (Strings Flautando), processed with Ciat Lonbarde's Cocoquantus.

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FLUXUS FAMILY REUNION – Lying down: Nam June Paik; sitting on the floor: Yasunao Tone, Simone Forti; first row: Yoshi Wada, Sara Seagull, Jackson Mac Low, Anne Tardos, Henry Flynt, Yoko Ono, La Monte Young, Peter Moore; second row: Peter Van Riper, Emily Harvey, Larry Miller, Dick Higgins, Carolee Schneemann, Ben Patterson, Jon Hendricks, Francesco Conz. (Behind Peter Moore: Marian Zazeela.) Photo by Josef Astor taken at the Emily Harvey Gallery published in Vanity Fair, July 1993.

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Water Damage: The Sonic Violence of Minimalism

Exploring the Intensity and Power of Water Damage's Drone Compositions

Austin band Water Damage has taken the droning minimalism of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela and transformed it into a unique form of sonic violence. With their self-described defining features of noise and repetition, Water Damage creates music that is both intense and captivating. Their sound is akin to being engulfed in the music and light installation of Young and Zazeela, only to be unexpectedly attacked by the entire Theatre of Eternal Music.

It's a truly exhilarating experience.

The Intensity of Water Damage's Sound

Water Damage's music is the product of around 10 musicians coming together to create a heady drone. They turn up the amps until the sound reaches a deafening roar, each instrument fighting to overpower the others. Multiple drums and basses, fuzzed-out organ and bowed guitar, and a shrieking violin or viola all contribute to the chaotic symphony.

The band explores the possibilities of creating one thing, played loudly, for an extended period of time. It requires an incredible amount of restraint to maintain the same sound for so long, yet Water Damage manages to do so while fully unleashing themselves upon their instruments.

A Unique Focus on Drone Compositions

Water Damage distinguishes itself from other rock bands by exclusively focusing on their own original drone compositions. While bands like Faust and Acid Mother's Temple occasionally incorporate minimalist experiments into their music, Water Damage has made it their sole purpose. Their dedication to powerfully contemplating a single note or chord for extended periods of time is commendable.

"Reel E," one of the four pieces on their double album set In E, exemplifies their commitment to this noble goal. The album is set to be released on 12XU on April 12.

Water Damage's music is a testament to the intensity and power of minimalism. Their ability to create a sonic experience that is both captivating and aggressive sets them apart from other bands in the genre. By focusing solely on drone compositions, they have carved out a unique space for themselves in the music world.

As listeners, we are taken on a journey of noise and repetition, where the boundaries of sound are pushed to their limits. Water Damage's "Reel E" is just a taste of their sonic prowess, leaving us eagerly anticipating the release of their double album In E.