| Yes, there is a House of Symphonies--as told in the Field Manual for the Performances of the Forty-Nine Symphonies. It lies in a piñon and juniper forest on an isolated mesa in New Mexico USA.There the forty-nine symphonies are, in fact, played. |
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| One day Dr Christopher Lantz stood on the edge of a cliff overlooking the landscape that surrounds the mesa. As he turned back to his land, he had a startling vision of a house that could be played as if it were a musical composition, and he had an inner knowledge of the music that had to be played inside the building.
He describes the house as the "creation of a four-thousand-square-foot acoustical structure which in its entirety is the specific scoring of forty-nine and more symphonies based on seven unique spectral musical languages." |
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| After a thirty-year career as a composer and conductor, Dr Lantz had withdrawn to the wild country that he loved. There he built by hand and with no machinery this house in the wilderness. It has curved walls and high ceilings, built for music and sound, and follows the rolling lay of the land. No tree was cut to place the house, no straight line was built into its structure, no electricity is used. | ||||||||
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| The curved walls have musical symbols scored into the rock-hard adobe mud. The floors have musical notation designed into them, and specifically placed openings in the ceiling allow sunlight or moonlight to fall in intricate patterns throughout the building. The acoustics are designed for precise effect to the playing of the music. | ||||||||
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| Two coyote packs keep watch over the land. In the house Dr Lantz and his family continue their work on musical languages, sound and perception. (portions of the above text adapted from The Taos Review, |
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