House of Symphonies: Christopher Lantz Documentary

Christopher Lantz UNPLUGGED reading from his own manuscript with aliveness and literally a vivid experience of acoustical physics

Christopher Lantz is one of the few remaining avant-garde composers who experimented in the early 70's with re-presenting notational musical form which he coined: "art scores." In their birth, these musical scores were not originally intended as "art." The composer was instead seeking freedom from the constraints of traditional notation. Was it possible to escape the linear bindings? How could he communicate to a musician the virtual improvisational freedom that could be gleaned in the subtleties of space, colors, and forms?

Lantz eventually reached a point in his musical career when he no longer "felt nourished by the music." He determined that Western music was dead.

Then he had a vision. He was to return to New Mexico, where he grew up, buy a piece of land and build an acoustical chamber. So he gave up his life of wealth and fame and moved to New Mexico and began building what would eventually become an extraordinary structure known as "The House of Symphonies" for which his most recent book is named.

house of Symphonies is the creation of a four thousand square foot acoustical structure containing the performance and scoring in unique graphic musical languages for more than forty-nine symphonies.