The Dream Membrane

2014 studio album by David Chaim Smith/Bill Laswell/John Zorn

The Dream Membrane

Studio album by

David Chaim Smith/Bill Laswell/John Zorn

Released

September 30, 2014 (2014-09-30)

Recorded

June 2014 (2014-06)

Genre

Drone, dark ambient

Length

47:49

Label

Tzadik

Producer

Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell chronology

Túwaqachi (The Fourth World)
(2012)

The Dream Membrane
(2014)

The Process
(2014)

John Zorn chronology

Myth and Mythopoeia
(2014)

The Dream Membrane
(2014)

The Dream Membrane is a collaborative album by Bill Laswell, David Chaim Smith and John Zorn. It was released on September 30, 2014 by Tzadik Records.^[1]^[2]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"The Dream Membrane"	David Chaim Smith	Bill Laswell and John Zorn	47:49

Personnel

Adapted from The Dream Membrane liner notes.^[3]

Musicians

Bill Laswell – bass guitar, drone, producer
David Chaim Smith – spoken word
John Zorn – alto saxophone, shofar, executive producer

Technical personnel

Heung-Heung Chin – design
James Dellatacoma – engineering
Scott Hull – mastering

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United States	2014	Tzadik	CD	TZ 4004

References

^ Zorn, John (1995). "David Chaim Smith, Bill Laswell, John Zorn: The Dream Membrane". Tzadik Records. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
^ "The Dream Membrane". Allmusic. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
^ The Dream Membrane (booklet). Bill Laswell, David Chaim Smith and John Zorn. New York City, New York: Tzadik Records. 2014.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

External links

The Dream Membrane at Discogs (list of releases)

Bill Laswell

Discography
Axiom

Solo

Studio albums	Baselines Hear No Evil Outer Dark Silent Recoil: Dub System One Oscillations City of Light Oscillations 2 Invisible Design Imaginary Cuba Permutation Dub Chamber 3 Lo. Def Pressure Filmtracks 2000 Points of Order Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission Invisible Design II Means of Deliverance Túwaqachi (The Fourth World)
As a pseudonym	Ambient Dub Volume I Ambient Dub Volume II: Dead Slow Doom Ride Dub Terror Exhaust Jihad (Points of Order) Lost in the Translation Akasha Funkcronomicon Off World One Distill Chapter One Mysteries of Creation Chapter Two Nagual Site Sacrifice The End of Law Serene Timeless Joy The Redesign Book of Exit: Dub Chamber 4
Remix albums	Russian Chants «Parastas» Oscillations Remixes Emerald Aether: Shape Shifting Trojan Dub Massive: Chapter One Trojan Dub Massive: Chapter Two
Cover albums	Jazzonia
Soundtrack albums	Broken Vessels
Compilations	Deconstruction: The Celluloid Recordings Light in Extension Ambient Compendium Final Oscillations ROIR Dub Sessions Aspiration

Collaborative

Studio albums	Low Life Outland Psychonavigation Cymatic Scan Visitation Web Somnific Flux Subsonic 2: Bass Terror Second Nature Psychonavigation 2 Interpieces Organization Outland 2 Psychonavigation 3 Dub Meltdown Outland 3 Psychonavigation 4 Charged Outland IV Life Space Death Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission Psychonavigation 5 Buck Jam Tonic Aftermathematics Soup A Navel City/No One Is There Brutal Calling Episome Outland 5 Lodge No Matter Konton Near Nadir Blixt The Dream Membrane The Process
Live albums	Asian Games Soup Live Live at the Bowery Poetry Project Bass & Drums

Studio
albums

Low Life
Outland
Psychonavigation
Cymatic Scan
Visitation
Web
Somnific Flux
Subsonic 2: Bass Terror
Second Nature
Psychonavigation 2
Interpieces Organization
Outland 2
Psychonavigation 3
Dub Meltdown
Outland 3
Psychonavigation 4
Charged
Outland IV
Life Space Death
Radioaxiom: A Dub Transmission
Psychonavigation 5
Buck Jam Tonic
Aftermathematics
Soup
A Navel City/No One Is There
Brutal Calling
Episome
Outland 5
Lodge
No Matter
Konton
Near Nadir
Blixt
The Dream Membrane
The Process

Live albums

Other albums

About Time
Curlew
Down by Law
SXL Live in Japan
Into the Outlands
Dissident

v t e John Zorn
Discography
Solo albums	The Classic Guide to Strategy First Recordings 1973 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 9 The Hermetic Organ The Hermetic Organ Vol. 2
Game Pieces	Lacrosse Pool Hockey Archery Cobra John Zorn's Cobra: Live at the Knitting Factory John Zorn's Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 New Traditions in East Asian Bar Bands Xu Feng Cobra: John Zorn's Game Pieces Volume 2
File Card Pieces	Spillane The Bribe Elegy Kristallnacht Godard/Spillane Femina Dictée/Liber Novus Interzone Mount Analogue
Cover albums	Voodoo The Big Gundown News for Lulu More News for Lulu Spy vs Spy
Classical	Redbird The Book of Heads Duras: Duchamp Angelus Novus Aporias: Requia for Piano and Orchestra The String Quartets Cartoon S/M Madness, Love and Mysticism Songs from the Hermetic Theatre Chimeras Magick Mysterium Rituals From Silence to Sorcery The Satyr's Play / Cerberus What Thou Wilt Lemma On the Torment of Saints, the Casting of Spells and the Evocation of Spirits The Alchemist Fragmentations, Prayers and Interjections In the Hall of Mirrors Myth and Mythopoeia
Filmworks	1986-1990 Music for an Untitled Film by Walter Hill 1990–1995 S&M + More Tears of Ecstasy 1996 Cynical Hysterie Hour 1997 Trembling Before G-d In the Mirror of Maya Deren Secret Lives Three Documentaries Invitation to a Suicide Hiding and Seeking Protocols of Zion Workingman's Death Notes on Marie Menken/Ray Bandar: A Life with Skulls The Treatment The Rain Horse Sholem Aleichem Belle de Nature/The New Rijksmuseum The Last Supper El General The Nobel Prizewinner City of Slaughter/Schmatta/Beyond the Infinite
Bar Kokhba	Bar Kokhba The Circle Maker 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 11 Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume 10
Masada String Trio	The Circle Maker 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 1 Azazel: Book of Angels Volume 2 Haborym: Book of Angels Volume 16
Music Romance	Music for Children Taboo & Exile The Gift
Hemophiliac	Hemophiliac 50th Birthday Celebration Volume 6
Masada Anniversary	Masada Guitars Voices in the Wilderness The Unknown Masada Masada Recital Masada Rock
50th Birthday Celebration	Volume 1 Volume 2 Volume 3 Volume 4 Volume 5 Volume 6 Volume 7 Volume 8 Volume 9 Volume 10 Volume 11 Volume 12
Book of Angels	Astaroth Azazel Malphas Orobas Balan Moloch Asmodeus Volac Xaphan Lucifer Zaebos Stolas Mycale Ipos Baal Haborym Caym Pruflas Abraxas Tap Alastor Adramelech Aguares
Moonchild	Moonchild: Songs Without Words Astronome Six Litanies for Heliogabalus The Crucible Ipsissimus Templars: In Sacred Blood The Lost Judgment
The Dreamers	The Dreamers O'o Ipos: Book of Angels Volume 14 A Dreamers Christmas Pellucidar: A Dreamers Fantabula
Alhambra	Alhambra Love Songs In Search of the Miraculous The Goddess – Music for the Ancient of Days
Simulacrum	Simulacrum The True Discoveries of Witches and Demons Inferno The Painted Bird 49 Acts Of Unspeakable Depravity In The Abominable Life And Times Of Gilles De Rais The Garden Of Earthly Delights Baphomet Chaos Magick Nostradamus: The Death of Satan
Tributes and Inspirations	IAO Enigmata Nova Express At the Gates of Paradise Nosferatu Rimbaud A Vision in Blakelight The Concealed Dreamachines Shir Hashirim Psychomagia On Leaves of Grass
Gnostic Trio	The Gnostic Preludes The Mysteries In Lambeth
Collaborations	In Memory of Nikki Arane with Eugene Chadbourne Locus Solus Yankees with Derek Bailey & George E. Lewis Deadly Weapons with Steve Beresford, Tonie Marshall & David Toop Ganryu Island with Sato Michihiro The Art of Memory with Fred Frith Zohar with Yamantaka Eye Nani Nani with Yamantaka Eye Harras with Derek Bailey & William Parker Euclid's Nightmare with Bobby Previte Weird Little Boy with Trey Spruance, Mike Patton, William Winant & Chris Cochrane Downtown Lullaby with Wayne Horvitz, Elliott Sharp and Bobby Previte Prelapse with Prelapse Buck Jam Tonic with Bill Laswell & Tatsuya Nakamura Naninani II with Yamantaka Eye The Stone: Issue One with Dave Douglas, Rob Burger, Bill Laswell, Mike Patton & Ben Perowsky The Stone: Issue Three with Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson The Art of Memory II with Fred Frith Late Works with Fred Frith @ with Thurston Moore Sonic Rivers with George E. Lewis & Wadada Leo Smith