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"Back on the call to Young, I sense he is getting tired we've been speaking for well over an hour, and I've been informed that he has been working round the clock preparing for his forthcoming performance. I start to wrap up our interview, and as I get ready to say goodbye, he says, very sincerely: 'I really hope I have answered your questions and that my answers have been useful to you,' and thanks me for taking an interest in his work.
I thank him back and, although I've been advised not to ask about his influence on pop and rock musicians - apparently he takes no interest in it-I decide that, since we've stayed on such good terms, I'll venture one last question about his legacy and how it feels to have shaped the careers of so many other artists within and far beyond his own practice.
'Is it true?' he asks, before chuckling to himself for a while. And then finally he replies, 'The thing is, it's not about ego gratification. It's about trying to do the right thing, and if you try to do the right thing with your life and other people agree you're doing the right thing, then that's very satisfying.'"
— Elizabeth Alker: Everything We Do Is Music
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"La Monte Young is eighty-six years old when I finally track him down for an online interview. After a period of inactivity during the Covid pandemic, he is preparing for a performance at the Dream House. This venue on the top floor of a Church Street townhouse in the TriBeCa area of New York is a permanent sound and light installation, in operation since 1993. It is also the home he shared with his wife, the artist Marian Zazeela, whom he married in 1963 and who passed away in March 2024 at the age of eighty-three.
'In Indian classical music, the musicians like to say "Nada Brahma", which means "Sound is God", he hollers at me on the video call. He is wearing his signature leather waistcoat, sunglasses, a black hood and a white cotton shirt that matches his long white beard and moustache. 'They say it all the time,' he adds. 'It's a mystical experience, you can't pin it down completely but you can go after it, and the more you go after it, the more you get a sense of satisfaction, the more you feel "I am doing the right thing with my life"."
For Young, to understand the power of music and how it affects us psychologically, physically, spiritually and emotionally is his entire life's work. 'What are we after all?' Young asks rhetorically, before giving me his answer:
We're a set of vibrations that we have been exposed to as we grow up in life. Once you start to study sound it never stops, it's a remarkable study. We're dealing with vibrations, and vibrations in sound are audible vibrations, but there are a lot of other vibrations too. Importantly, though, the way you deal with vibration has to do with how you feel comfortable in life."
— Elizabeth Alker: Everything We Do Is Music
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La Monte Young - Composition 1960 No.7
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Very nice new review of Dream Inside a Dream in African Paper (text in German, but it translates readily): http://africanpaper.com/2024/12/14/dave-seidel-dream-inside-a-dream/
Link to release: https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album/post-orientalism-no-iv-dream-inside-a-dream
(Also I should post some photos from my recent mini-tour, will do that soon.)
#africanpaper #lamonteyoung #post-orientalism #dronemusic #electronicmusic #thewelltunedpiano
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Hey, it's Bandcamp Friday tomorrow (October 4), and I have a new release on the Post-Orientalism label: https://mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album/post-orientalism-no-iv-dream-inside-a-dream
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Mes écoutes de la semaine du 15 Juillet 2024 :
#BrechtAmeel, #ByronWestbrook, #CHBB, #Eleh, #FélicieBazelaire, #FreeTala, #GlennJones, #IbelisseGuardiaFerragutti #FrankRosaly, #IntercommunalFreeDanceMusicOrchestra, #IntercommunalFreeDanceMusicOrchestra, #JackRose, #JackRose, #JulienLedru, #LaMonteYoung #MarianZazeela, #LeCriDuCaire, #Lewsberg, #MichelCloup(Duo), #MichelCloup #PascalBouaziz #JulienRufié, #Moonshake, #PascalBouaziz #MichelCloup #PatriceCartier, #StianWesterhus #MajaSKRatkje, #TFS, #TristanPerich #ensemble0, #TropicalFuckStorm, #Xeeland, #Zelienople,
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#Disques du jour d'hier, de chez #SouffleContinu et par colis :
- #Sumac • The Healer
- #IntercommunalFreeDanceMusicOrchestra • L'Intercommunal
- #TristanPerich + #Ensemble0 • Open Symmetry
- #CHBB • CHBB
- #LaMonteYoung + #MarianZazeela • The Theatre of Eternal Music
- #Moonshake • Eva Luna (Expanded)
- #SML • Small Medium Large
- #IntercommunalFreeDanceMusicOrchestra • Le MusichienAu centre, un t-shirt de #LucrateMilk, what else?
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Compositions 1960 ...
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RIP Marian Zazeela. Sad news but what a full and productive life lived.
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The Dream House: Account of hearing La Monte Young play his unique American minimalism in New York
https://medium.com/music-thing-modular-notes/i-went-to-see-la-monte-young-playing-in-his-new-york-loft-and-you-should-do-the-same-8322c353d1d
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The original was released in 1969: 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta.
It's been reissued a few times, most recently on clear vinyl.
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The original was released in 1969: 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta.
It's been reissued a few times, most recently on clear vinyl.
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https://youtu.be/LorSihazGsk?si=NWHMYlF4cBlpPjD6
#LaMonteYoung Compositions 1960
Piano Piece for David Tudor #1
The first of three pieces dedicated to David Tudor, under whom Young studied for a year.Bring a bale of hay and a bucket of water onto the stage for the piano to eat and drink. The performer may then feed the piano or leave it to eat by itself. If the former, the piece is over after the piano has been fed. If the latter, it is over after the piano eats or decides not to.
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#AngusMacLise > VU! Not really but as I got older I was definitely more enamored with New York pre VU. The bohemian artists that made up the #Fluxus movement, The Theater of Eternal Music, Harry Smith, all that. It felt like we didn’t get that history because we were sold the endless classic rock narrative and VU fit in with that in a way. I’ll take stories of the minimalism of #LaMonteYoung/ #MarianZazeela over that endless classic rock narrative any day of the week. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/angus-maclise-the-forgotten-founder-of-the-velvet-underground/
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@TomSwirly more likely the Church Street Black Record. 😄
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@TomSwirly more likely the Church Street Black Record. 😄
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Happy International Drone Day!
#DroneDay #Drone #Noise #Minimalism #LaMonteYoung https://youtu.be/DX29Vewnzyw -
La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, Dream House: Sound and Light Environment, 2018–2023, installation view. Photograph: Jung Hee Choi
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La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Jung Hee Choi, Dream House: Sound and Light Environment, 2018–2023, installation view. Photograph: Jung Hee Choi
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3/3 #LaMonteYoung
"In many ways, Dream House is entirely unlike a dream; rather, it is a staunchly empirical, concrete demonstration. Almost as soon as I leave, I find myself wanting to go back."
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3/3 #LaMonteYoung
"In many ways, Dream House is entirely unlike a dream; rather, it is a staunchly empirical, concrete demonstration. Almost as soon as I leave, I find myself wanting to go back."
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2/3 #LaMonteYoung
"Young’s music moves so slowly in part to help the listener overlook the fact that it’s a composition...The relationship between pitches has always existed but the means of discerning them did not until advances in electronics made precise tunings available for human manipulation."
https://www.frieze.com/article/dream-house-one-take-235
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2/3 #LaMonteYoung
"Young’s music moves so slowly in part to help the listener overlook the fact that it’s a composition...The relationship between pitches has always existed but the means of discerning them did not until advances in electronics made precise tunings available for human manipulation."
https://www.frieze.com/article/dream-house-one-take-235
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Discover the Mathematical Magic of ‘Dream House’In New York, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s permanent sound and light installation continue to amaze its visitors.
"These tones are based on microtonal adjustments, derived from prime numbers, which are basically impossible for most fretted instruments to achieve. Imagine less a piece of music than a demonstration of natural properties, an embodiment of what certain tunings can conjure. "
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Discover the Mathematical Magic of ‘Dream House’In New York, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela’s permanent sound and light installation continue to amaze its visitors.
"These tones are based on microtonal adjustments, derived from prime numbers, which are basically impossible for most fretted instruments to achieve. Imagine less a piece of music than a demonstration of natural properties, an embodiment of what certain tunings can conjure. "
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New #review today: "Often considered one of the pioneers of #minimalism, composer and musician #LaMonteYoung has a lot of name recognition but for all his pioneering work, he hasn’t produced a large bounty of recordings over his lifetime, and what recordings he has produced are next to impossible to find. The reissue at hand (sometimes referred to as The Black Album) is often considered the holy grail of Young’s works." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/la-monte-young-marian-zazeela-1-vii-69-1026-1049-pm-23-viii-64-25045-311-am-the-volga-delta-the-blac.html
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New #review today: "Often considered one of the pioneers of #minimalism, composer and musician #LaMonteYoung has a lot of name recognition but for all his pioneering work, he hasn’t produced a large bounty of recordings over his lifetime, and what recordings he has produced are next to impossible to find. The reissue at hand (sometimes referred to as The Black Album) is often considered the holy grail of Young’s works." #ExposeOnline #ExperimentalMusic http://expose.org/index.php/articles/display/la-monte-young-marian-zazeela-1-vii-69-1026-1049-pm-23-viii-64-25045-311-am-the-volga-delta-the-blac.html
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La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela - "31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta (The Black Record)" (1969) #NowPlaying #LaMonteYoung #MarianZazeela #minimalism #Mastodrone #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela - "31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta (The Black Record)" (1969) #NowPlaying #LaMonteYoung #MarianZazeela #minimalism #Mastodrone #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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1975 - I read an article in Rolling Stone about #LaMonteYoung. Sounding interesting. Eventually years later, I heard the birthday broadcasts on WKCR.
1980 - I read about the #TerryRiley Shri Camel album in the NY Times. I ran out and bought a copy. I was was hooked.
1994 - I had a credit card, I bought Korg 05/RW with a global tuning table and I could tune 12 notes to the octave.
1996-98 - Trenton Avant Garde Festival performances
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1975 - I read an article in Rolling Stone about #LaMonteYoung. Sounding interesting. Eventually years later, I heard the birthday broadcasts on WKCR.
1980 - I read about the #TerryRiley Shri Camel album in the NY Times. I ran out and bought a copy. I was was hooked.
1994 - I had a credit card and I bought Korg 05/RW. It had a global tuning table and I could tune 12 notes to the octave.
1996-98 - Trenton Avant Garde Festival performances
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La Monte Young
Piano Piece for Terry Riley #1
1960#TerryRiley
#LaMonteYoung
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La Monte Young
Piano Piece for Terry Riley #1
1960#TerryRiley
#LaMonteYoung
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La Monte Young and the Theatre of Eternal Music - "Pre-Tortoise Dream Music/The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys" #NowPlaying #LaMonteYoung #MarianZazeela #vinyl #vinylrecords @vinylrecords
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@nicheinterests For a moment I thought you were covering a #LaMonteYoung holiday tune with your children
I will continue to imagine that
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Le Monte Young - Pre-Tortoise Dream Music [EXPERIMENTAL DRONE MUSIC] https://youtu.be/4t1Sl_gYHuw
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La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Dream House, 1993-Present
#minimalsim #microtonal #microtonal #justintonation
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"I have my own definition of minimalism, which is that which is created with a minimum of means." - La Monte Young