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  1. "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

    #music #quote #books #book #LaMonteYoung

  2. "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

    #music #quote #books #book #LaMonteYoung

  3. "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

    #music #quote #books #book #LaMonteYoung

  4. "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

    #LaMonteYoung #music #god

  5. "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

    #LaMonteYoung #music #god

  6. "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

    #LaMonteYoung #music #god

  7. "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

    #LaMonteYoung #music #god

  8. Very nice new review of Dream Inside a Dream in African Paper (text in German, but it translates readily): africanpaper.com/2024/12/14/da

    Link to release: mysterybear.bandcamp.com/album

    (Also I should post some photos from my recent mini-tour, will do that soon.)

    -orientalism

  9. #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 Musichien

    Au centre, un t-shirt de #LucrateMilk, what else?

  10. #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 Musichien

    Au centre, un t-shirt de #LucrateMilk, what else?

  11. #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 Musichien

    Au centre, un t-shirt de #LucrateMilk, what else?

  12. #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 Musichien

    Au centre, un t-shirt de #LucrateMilk, what else?

  13. Would you like a primer on minimalist music's 'big four' to accompany the latest episode of Spotlight On? The Guardian has published great guides to these foundational figures:

    • A guide to Steve Reich's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to Terry Riley's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to Philip Glass's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to La Monte Young's music → theguardian.com/music/musicblo

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    #SteveReich #PhilipGlass #TerryRiley #LaMonteYoung

  14. Would you like a primer on minimalist music's 'big four' to accompany the latest episode of Spotlight On? The Guardian has published great guides to these foundational figures:

    • A guide to Steve Reich's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to Terry Riley's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to Philip Glass's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to La Monte Young's music → theguardian.com/music/musicblo

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    #SteveReich #PhilipGlass #TerryRiley #LaMonteYoung

  15. Would you like a primer on minimalist music's 'big four' to accompany the latest episode of Spotlight On? The Guardian has published great guides to these foundational figures:

    • A guide to Steve Reich's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to Terry Riley's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to Philip Glass's music → theguardian.com/music/tomservi
    • A guide to La Monte Young's music → theguardian.com/music/musicblo

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    #SteveReich #PhilipGlass #TerryRiley #LaMonteYoung

  16. @iraantlers @TomSwirly

    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.

    discogs.com/master/190638-La-M

    #LaMonteYoung

  17. @iraantlers @TomSwirly

    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.

    discogs.com/master/190638-La-M

    #LaMonteYoung

  18. @iraantlers @TomSwirly

    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.

    discogs.com/master/190638-La-M

    #LaMonteYoung

  19. @iraantlers @TomSwirly

    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.

    discogs.com/master/190638-La-M

    #LaMonteYoung

  20. @iraantlers @TomSwirly

    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.

    discogs.com/master/190638-La-M

    #LaMonteYoung

  21. youtu.be/LorSihazGsk?si=NWHMYl

    #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.

  22. youtu.be/LorSihazGsk?si=NWHMYl

    #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.

  23. youtu.be/LorSihazGsk?si=NWHMYl

    #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.

  24. youtu.be/_Ff7p6qTMn0?si=Moo-rP

    #LaMonteYoung-Composition #9, 1960.
    #9
    Edit
    The instructions composition is written on an envelope, dated October 1960. The score is contained within the envelope.

    Instructions:

    the enclosed score is right side up when the line is horizontal and slightly above center.
    The enclosed score consists of a single black horizontal line drawn within the margins of the paper.

  25. #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. faroutmagazine.co.uk/angus-mac

  26. #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. faroutmagazine.co.uk/angus-mac

  27. #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. faroutmagazine.co.uk/angus-mac

  28. @TomSwirly more likely the Church Street Black Record. 😄

    #LaMonteYoung

  29. @TomSwirly more likely the Church Street Black Record. 😄

    #LaMonteYoung

  30. @TomSwirly more likely the Church Street Black Record. 😄

    #LaMonteYoung

  31. @TomSwirly more likely the Church Street Black Record. 😄

    #LaMonteYoung

  32. @TomSwirly more likely the Church Street Black Record. 😄

    #LaMonteYoung

  33. Aktuell in der #HörBar der #nmz: Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1) — Eine alles in allem runde Sache, vor allem als CD- oder Vinyl-Ausgabe, die natürlich massive Lücken lässt, wie sollte auch anders sein. Sie lässt Lücken offen und füllt zugleich welche.

    hoerbar.nmz.de/2023/07/fluxus-

    #EMusik #NeueMusik #ZeitgenssischeMusik #Fluxus #LaMonteYoung #Neofluxus #NeueMusik #SubRosaLabelBrssel #TerryRiley

  34. Aktuell in der #HörBar der #nmz: Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Stolen Symphony (Vol. 1) — Eine alles in allem runde Sache, vor allem als CD- oder Vinyl-Ausgabe, die natürlich massive Lücken lässt, wie sollte auch anders sein. Sie lässt Lücken offen und füllt zugleich welche.

    hoerbar.nmz.de/2023/07/fluxus-

    #EMusik #NeueMusik #ZeitgenssischeMusik #Fluxus #LaMonteYoung #Neofluxus #NeueMusik #SubRosaLabelBrssel #TerryRiley