Spent some time with Drew last night at La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's Dream House installation. As they explain on the site, the environment includes a handful of Zazeela's sculptures light by red and blue light in a room on Church Street with purple-tinted windows. Four speakers create a "periodic composite sound waveform environment" from "sine wave components generated digitally in real time on a custom-designed Rayna interval synthesizer."

Basically, it's a purple room with very loud machines, an industrial dishwasher on bass, say, and an array of stamping dies on the treble. The first few minutes I involuntarily pictured Leonard Nimoy clutching his head. If you stay perfectly still the lower register overtones really get throbbing. If you move -- even change the shape of your ear canal by yawning, say -- you get a completely different tone. In other words, I was the instrument the room was playing.

I found that if I walked in a circle near the center of the room I defeated the throb while getting some nice oscillating melodies. If I stopped -- incipient headache. I decided this must be how fish feel, needing to keep moving to stay alive.

Zazeela's sculptures are kind of perfect. Drew and I took a bunch of pictures.

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