Dream House

Dream House is a sound and light installation, and occasional performance venue, created by minimalist composer La Monte Young and multimedia artist Marian Zazeela. Since its conception in the 1960s, several versions of the Dream House have existed in various locations; a current version housed above Young and Zazeela’s Church Street loft in Tribeca dates back to 1993.

Beginning in 1962, La Monte Young had begun formulating the concept of a continuous sound environment. In a 1964 program note for his Theatre of Eternal Music collective, Young describes «Dream Houses [that] will allow music which, after a year, ten years, a hundred years of constant sound, would not only be a real living organism with a life and tradition of its own, but one with a capacity to propel itself by its own momentum.» Their intention was to create an immersive environment where «all the sensory information is unusual and outside your normal frame of reference.»

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