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| | La Monte Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Young has written more conventional music as well. | | | For The Four Dreams of China Young began to plan the "Dream House," a light and sound installation where musicians would live and create music twenty four hours a day, and formed The Theater of Eternal Music to realize this and other pieces. | | | Both his Fluxus influenced and "minimal" compositions question the nature of music and often stress elements of performance not normally indicated. |
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| | Avantgarde Music. LaMonte Young: biography, discography, reviews, links |
| | La Monte Young regards music as an external being with an independent existence, and thus is critical of a Western culture he sees making music conform to human existence in such a way as to be unnatural and counter to the essence of music. | | | La Monte Young’s Minimalism, at the borders of psycho-acoustic and musical space, represents the most radical undertaking of modern music, a sort of sonorous black hole into which all musical notions disappear. | | | In 1964, Young composed what is perhaps his magnum opus, the colossal five-hour minimalist The Well-Tuned Piano for a piano tuned to just intonation (the title is meant as a parody of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier), which requires a month for the tuning of the piano alone. |
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| | La Monte Young |
| | Young caught on quickly to the contemporary academic music of the time, showing special interest in the 12-tone music of Anton Webern. | | | In 1959 Young went to Darmstadt to study for the summer with Karlheinz Stockhausen; David Tudor was also in attendance, and through him Young was exposed to the philosophy and music of John Cage. | | | He still lives in New York and continues to write music, tutor students, maintain a sound installation, play concerts of both classical raga and his own work, and release recordings via his private record label. |
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| | ALEX CARPENTER - LA MONTE YOUNG: TOWARDS ABSOLUTE MUSIC |
| | Young's work with drones during this period made his adoption of just intonation inevitable, as listening to long tones provides "a situation where you can begin to concentrate on... | | | Here Young was quite prolific on the concert scene, frequently performing on saxophone and violin, as well as organising and directing the first known New York loft concert series, which took place at Yoko Ono's studio on Chambers Street, and ran from December until June the following year. | | | The harmonic stasis in Young's later music, however, is much more explicit. |
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| | Interview with Tony Conrad |
| | Young's personal peccadillo has set up a historiographic paradox; the cultural influence of this music is more legible than the music itself is audible. | | | Young is suppressing the recordings of "TEM," which do not flatter him. | | | When I picketed La Monte Young in 1990, it was principally because he had insisted that before making copies of our music for us - which all of the collaborators had agreed originally would be done - that we each would have to sign an agreement that he, Young, was the "composer" of the music. |
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| | In Butterfly for La Monte Young a 28:27 interval, tuned in sine waves and emanating from one of two speakers, is subjected to a fractional interference signal. | | | The 28:27 interval is a distinctive presence in La Monte Young's septimally-based tunings, such as The Well-Tuned Piano and Just Charles and Cello in The Romantic Chord. | | | Obviously there is no such thing as a perfect, "beat-free" interval, as La Monte has pointed out; beats simply slow down to a point at which we are no longer able to follow them, and beyond. |
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| | Following a Straight Line |
| | La Monte has made an archival recording of the forearm cluster on piano version and has performed it publicly with drumstick on gong (gong flat on the floor, not suspended)' [Email, 17 June 2004]. | | | Young improvises vocally on these drone frequencies in rhythmically free fashion, sliding from note to note at varying speeds. | | | (Young's music, however, negates the existence of indefinite pitch.) These two pieces bear a fundamental relationship to all of his output (and indeed to much English and American experimental music of the last ten years). |
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| | La Monte Young: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more Music.com |
| | In time, Young also began delving into the classic musics of India and Japan; the barren atmospheres evoked by the music of Anton Webern [+] were another key influence. | | | Rarely recorded throughout much of his career, Young signed to Gramavision in 1987, with a flurry of releases -- The Well-Tuned Piano, {^The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from the Four Dreams of China} and Just Stompin', a raga-blues effort recorded with his Forever Blues Band, among them -- soon appearing. | | | Regardless, his music from that point on remained pointed in the direction of infinity -- The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys, a work tuned to the pitch of his pet turtle's aquarium motor, was begun in 1964 but its theoretical evolution continues into the present, each performance a part of a greater whole. |
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| | MELA: La Monte Young - Second Dream press |
| | Young's music touches deep emotional resonances in many listeners. | | | The panglobal music of composer La Monte Young transported them around the world in roughly 70 minutes without once breaking the sound barrier. | | | ...Perfect intonation by all, and their ability to set up varying harmonic combinations, improvising within the context of Young's explicit directions, were what transformed a well-gauged theory into a piece whose purity of sound made one oblivious to temporal concerns. |
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| | American Mavericks: An interview with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela |
| | YOUNG: My Aunt Norma was a rodeo singer, and she started to teach me to sing cowboy songs and play guitar when I was 2 years old. | | | He introduced me to Debussy and Stravinsky, and he literally went to the record collection with me and said, "Here listen to this." He took a great interest in me and in one of his harmony classes I wrote a composition for string quartet in 1954 or 1955. | | | I was walking down the hall one day, and I heard the sound of the Webern piano variations coming out of one of the rooms. |
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| | La Monte Young - the tortoise, his dreams and journeys - Last.fm |
| | Of all 530 people that have listened to songs by La Monte Young, this represents 3.4%. | | | 18 people have listened to the tortoise, his dreams and journeys by La Monte Young. | | | 530 different people have listened to La Monte Young. |
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| | La Monte Young: Composition 1960 #7 |
| | La Monte Young has pioneered the concept of extended time durations in contemporary music for over 40 years. | | | The 1974 Rome live world premiere of Young's magnum opus The Well-Tuned Piano (1964-73-81-present), was celebrated by a commission for him to sign the Bösendorfer piano, which remains permanently in the special tuning. | | | There was sustenance in Eastern and Western music but it was always a drone, a pedal point, or a sustained tone of a cantus firmus over which melodies were sung or played. |
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| | A La Monte Young Web Page |
| | His rule-based improvisations under the auspices of the Theatre of Eternal Music, though not heard publicly in decades, remain an icon of the psychedelic age, and were a direct influence on the Velvet Underground and artrock. | | | "La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano" in Perspectives of New Music, Volume 31 Number 1 (Winter 1993). | | | See the tuning of Young's The Well-Tuned Piano explained. |
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| | aworks :: "new" american classical music: The Well-Tuned Piano (1964-73). La Monte Young |
| | Amazon has a used CD copy at $199, although the comments may indicate it is Just Stompin' instead, a blues improvisation 2-CD set by La Monte Young and the Forever Bad Blues Band. | | | Kyle Gann blogs about his external hard drive and the challenges and joys of filling it up with music, including La Monte Young's 5 CD set of The Well-Tuned Piano. | | | Unlike that guy who is blogging his entire record collection, album by album, I don't remember where I bought Just Stompin''. |
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| | Young, La Monte Music Web Links |
| | -- Oscar Hammerstein, working lyric for a piece from "The Sound of Music" Young, La Monte I'd wipe the machines off the face of the earth again, and end the industrial epoch absolutely, like a black mistake. | | | See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin. | | | La Monte Young - Brief sketch of the composer's career with explanation of the tuning of his "Well-Tuned Piano" and course in "Just Intonation." |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the ... |
| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century S.) | | | Top of Page : Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century S.) | | | Four Musical Minimalists: La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass (Music in the Twentieth Century S.) |
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| | La Monte Young |
| | La Monte Young (born Bern, Idaho, 1935) has pioneered the concept of extended time durations in contemporary music for over 35 years. | | | Young's concert works are usually presented with lighting designs by Ms. | | | As well, his work has played a central role in the development of the use of Just Intonation in 20th-century music and the growth of the Minimalist style. |
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| | La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela: the halana interview |
| | From the liner notes to La Monte Young, The Forever Bad Blues Bad, Just Stompin', Live at the Kitchen. | | | Photograph: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, The Forever Bad Blues Band Tour, "Pop Goes Art, Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground Exhibition," Augsburg, Germany, August 1992. | | | The drone constants are very supportive and allow you to use them as positioning points of reference, to remain aloft, so to speak, in this special state of consciousness and awareness. |
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| | Music group Sanctuary to axe 175 jobs |
| | When Plant recommended his friend John Bonham as the drummer, one of the most successful bands in rock history was born as Led Zeppelin. | | | Formed from the ashes of the trance-rockers Spacemen 3, singer/guitarist Jason Pierce's group Spiritualized did not break away from his prior band's trademark hypnotic minimalism; instead, they perfected it. | | | In 1968, a naïve young singer from the Black Country hills in England named Robert Plant was discovered wailing the blues by veteran session guitarist Jimmy Page and bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones. |
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| | FreeNote Music: Recordings and Publications / La Monte Young The Well-Tuned Piano DVD |
| | FreeNote Music: Recordings and Publications / La Monte Young The Well-Tuned Piano DVD | | | Encoded to a single 401 minute DVD for non-stop play. | | | The 6-hour 24-minute continuous performance of the Young and Zazeela collaborative masterwork videotaped on May 10, 1987 during the La Monte Young 30-Year Retrospective presented by MELA Foundation in New York City. |
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| | ALEX CARPENTER - LA MONTE YOUNG: TOWARDS ABSOLUTE MUSIC |
| | "La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela." In Talking Music. | | | He continues: "If Cage stood for Zen, multiplicity, and becoming, Young stands for yoga, singularity, and being." Interestingly, the words "becoming" and "being" in this context are actually trademarks of Plato, who himself used them to describe the physical and transcendent worlds respectively. | | | "The Outer Edge of Consonance." In "Sound and Light: La Monte Young Marian Zazeela." Bucknell Review. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts features Don't sleeve me this way |
| | Lesser known "composers" of the group included Wolf Vostell, who devised sonatas for jet aircraft, Milan Knizak, who mistreated records with a penknife, George Maciunas, who gleefully hammered nails into a piano keyboard and Dick Higgins, who fired shotguns at sheets of blank music manuscript paper creating a random "score". | | | Like Cage before him, Marclay strives to open the process of composition to external influences. | | | DJ and artist Christian Marclay tells Rob Young how to have fun with records |
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| | Music Consumption: La Monte Young |
| | Ideally I'd like to find it on CD, but I'd be ok with LP also (if it was in NM or Mint condition). | | | I'm looking for a copy of La Monte Young's The Well-Tuned Piano, which is way out of print. | | | And La Monte Young's The Second Dream of the High-Tension Stepdown Transformer, which, the first time I heard it, hit me like instant meditation. |
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| | La Monte Young Music and Discussion |
| | LaMonte Young: The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC | | | As a Flork-User, you can participate in this and other discussions, meet new people and exchange messages with other members directly: www.flork.com | | | La Monte Young: The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath, An Homage |
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| | la monte young article |
| | Drones produced vocally, instrumentally and electronically are dominant in these later pieces. | | | This work has been performed at various times in different sections using, VV, mixers, amplifiers, drones and loud speakers. | | | Since 1964 Young has been working on a single piece, THE TORTOISE, HIS DREAMS AND JOURNEYS. |
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| | La Monte YOUNG, Astrologie et planètes : thème astral, carte du ciel interactive |
| | Sa couleur est le bleu ou le rouge (pas trop vif), son minéral l'opale, son jour le vendredi, ses métiers, la beauté, le luxe, la mode, la musique, la création artistique, avocat, médiateur... | | | Elle exprime la façon dont le sujet agit dans le monde. |
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| | La Monte Young - Exhibitions |
| | La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela Dream House: Seven Years of Sound and Light | | | A time installation measured by a setting of continuous frequencies in sound an light. | | | To learn more about using the library to publish, distribute or retrieve information please refer to the Welcome page. |
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| | FRANK J. That sounds like a great place to end this discussion and we might want to make this our ending and throw in a question before it, just because I have one other question that I want to ask, but... | | | And when I first began to study raga I made it very clear to everyone that I was never going to do fusion. | | | La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Dream House |
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| | U B U W E B :: La Monte Young |
| | La Monte Young and Charlotte Moorman in UbuWeb Sound | | | Includes "Notes On The Continuous Periodic Composite Sound Waveform Environment Realizations Of "Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery," "Dream House,"Conversation With La Monte Young By Richard Kostelanetz," The Soul Of The Word," "Lecture 1960," and "Poem To Diane." | | | Long out-of-print seminal writings and interviews by Young and Zazeela. |
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| | HOMAGE TO LA MONTE YOUNG (GEORGE MACIUNAS) |
| | (preferably to follow performance of any composition of 1961 by LMY.) | | | HOMAGE TO LA MONTE YOUNG, by George Maciunas, Jan. 12, 1962 | | | line or lines of La Monte Young or any other lines encountered, like |
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| | CMT.com : La Monte Young : Artist Main |
| | One of the principal architects of the minimalist aesthetic, La Monte Young was among the true innovators of 20th century... | | | Check out his emotional new video, "Who You'd Be Today." | | | Connect with other fans and discuss what's on your mind. |
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| | www.floraberlin.de - Soundbag - Overview |
| | 117: Helga de la Motte, Conceptions of Sound Art | | | 34: La Monte Young, Composition 1960 # 5 | | | SOUNDBAG is an internet project by Rolf Langebartels. |
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| | matmos - news |
| | When we're not straining young minds at the San Francisco Art Institute, or recording new Matmos material in Los Angeles with the lovely and talented Mr. | | | Though we have not yet overcome the stage fright and/or short term memory problems that keep us from treading the boards ourselves, Matmos have now completed our first collaboration with a drama company, creating lots of brand new music for the Soho Rep production of a new play by Brooklyn playwright Young Jean Lee. | | | The play is called "The Appeal" and promises to be a hoot. |
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