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(17/1) La Monte Young, , Live Radio #1-#5

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La Monte Young

[Audio,Flac]#695017001

"Live Radio #1 to #5"
Young-Cale-Lise-Conrad

1. Live Radio #1 (00:04:42)
2. Live Radio #2 (00:14:43)
3. Live Radio #3 (00:25:44)
4. Live Radio #4 (00:07:29)
5. Live Radio #5 (00:11:25)

(26/1) La Monte Young, , Archival Recordings (sixtieth birthday radio broadcast)

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La Monte Young

archival recordings
sixtieth birthday radio broadcast

[audio,m4a]#695026001

1-01 piano study [excerpt]
1-02 composition 1960 #7 [excerpt]
1-03 composition 1960 #7 [conclusion]
1-04 early tuesday morning blues [excerpt]
1-05 early tuesday morning blues [excerpt]
1-06 early tuesday morning blues [conclusion]

2-01 b-flat dorian blues (5th day of the hammer) [excerpt]
2-02 b-flat dorian blues (5th day of the hammer) [excerpt]
2-03 b-flat dorian blues (28-63 of the overday) [excerpt]
2-04 disc 2 - track 04 [unlisted] [excerpt]
2-05 voices [excerpt]

3-01 12-63 evening, new york city (the fire is a mirror) [excerpt]
3-02 the fire is a mirror [excerpt]
3-03 day of the antler (tape of the obsidian ocelot) [excerpt]
3-04 the big band - lower map of the eleventh division [excerpt]

4-01 soundtone installation 27-72 [excerpt]
4-02 two sounds [excerpt]
4-03 13-73 [excerpt]
4-04 drift study [excerpt]
4-05 for brass i [excerpt]
4-06 for brass ii [excerpt]
4-07 poem for tables, chairs, benches, etc [excerpt]

5-01 for guitar [excerpt]
5-02 disc 5 - track 02 [unlisted] [excerpt]
5-03 the volga delta [excerpt]
5-04 raga bhairava [excerpt]
5-05 raga bhairava [conclusion]

(511/1) La Monte Young, , The Reconstruction VUAS Tapes : Tapes 39-48

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The Reconstruction VUAS Tapes
Tapes 39-48

Disc One
01. Early Tuesday Morning Blues (41) (12:55)
02. The Fire Is A Mirror (NYC 12 63 Evening) (14:58)
03. Two Sounds (April 1960, with Terry Riley) (15:53)
04. Composition 1960 #7 expert 1 (7:31)
05. Poem For Chairs Tables and Benche (15:39)

Disc Two
01. Volga Delta 23 expert 1959 (21:38)
02. five small pieces for string quartet - A Gnarl (1:19)
03. five small pieces for string quartet - A Leaf (1:12)
04. five small pieces for string quartet - T Tooth (1:33)
05. five small pieces for string quartet - A Twig (1:15)
06. five small pieces for string quartet - A Wisp (1:06)
07. Sunday Morning Blues (12 I 64 1st 12) (14:05)
08. Expert From Map Of 49's Dream The Two System (4:55)
09. Ellen Fullman Harmonic Cross Sweep - Overtone Series Of C-hord Progession (5:04)
10. Dreamhouse (3:46)

Disc Three
01. Henry Flynt with La Monte Young - New American Ethic Music 1 (42:37)
02. Ohm - The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music - Expert... (7:00)
03. Expert '31 - 69 c.12-17-33-12-25-33 PM NYC (7:01)

(456/1) La Monte Young, , II (2016)

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La Monte Young‎– II

Velvet Underground Appreciation Society – 40

Label: Not On Label (La Monte Young) – none
Vinyle, LP, Reissue, Unofficial Release
Sortie: 2016

Tracklist

A1 Poem For Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc. 15:34
A2 Two Sounds (Beginning; 1961) 3:12
B1 Two Sounds (Conclusion; 1961) 11:24
B2 Piano Study (1961) 7:22

Taken from a radio broadcast.

(27/1) La Monte Young, 1958, Trio For Strings

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La Monte Young

1 - Trio for Strings (1958)(00:49:38)

as performed by an unidentified string trio in Germany, supposedly at an event on the occasion of La Monte Young's 49th birthday

"A revolution in Twentieth Century music occurred in 1958, when La Monte Young wrote the Trio for Strings. This serial piece, with its silences and long tones, paved the way for music based on tonality, drone and infinite time spans, brushing aside elaborate formal development in favor of the contempltion of pure sound."

David Paul, Seconds Magazine No. 50, NYC 1999

(28/1) La Monte Young, 1960-04, Arabic Numeral For Henry Flynt

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La Monte Young

1960

Arabic Numeral for Henry Flynt

[audio,flac]#695028001

1 x for henry flynt keyboard version i
2 x for henry flynt keyboard version ii
3 x for henry flynt keyboard version iii
4 x for henry flynt keyboard version iiii
5 x for henry flynt keyboard version iiiii
6 x for henry flynt keyboard version iiiiii
7 x for henry flynt keyboard version iiiiiii

(18/1) La Monte Young, 1961, Theatre Of Eternal Music

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La Monte Young

[Audio,Mp3]#695018001

Theatre of Eternal Music

1. Raga For Ravi (00:38:18)
2. Poem For Tables, Chairs, Etc. Part 1 (00:08:54)
3. Poem For Tables, Chairs, Etc. Part 2 (00:07:41)
4. Two Sounds (00:14:38)
5. B Flat Dorian Blues 19 X 63 (5Th Day Of The Hammer) (00:09:41)
6. Pre-Tortoise Dream Music (00:20:23)

(47/1) La Monte Young, 1962-12-06, Composition 1960 #03 (Festum Fluxorum), American Students and Artists Center, Paris, France

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(14/1) La Monte Young, 1963, Young S Dorian Blues In Bb & Early Tuesday Morning Blues Impro

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La Monte Young

[Audio,mp3]#695014001

Young s dorian blues in bb & Early tuesday morning blues impro (1963)

1. Bb Dorian Blues 28th-63 (1963) (00:09:41)
2. Early Tuesday Morning Blues (1963) (00:14:16)

(363/1) La Monte Young, 1963-02-02, Arabic Numeral (Any Integer) for Henry Flynt, Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany

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(31/1) La Monte Young, 1964-04-02, The Dream Syndicate With La Monte Young – Day Of The Holy Mountain (2008)

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La Monte Young

2008
the dream syndicate & la monte young day of the holy mountain

[audio,mp3]#695031001

01 - day of the holy mountain (part 1)
02 - day of the holy mountain (part 2)
03 - day of the holy mountain (part 3)
04 - day of the holy mountain (part 4)

(29/1) La Monte Young, 1965, Forty-two For Henry Flynt

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La Monte Young

Forty-Two for Henry Flynt
by La Monte Young performed by Peter Winkler (gong) at the Third Annual Festival of the Avant Garde in San Francisco, 1965 (1965)

This audio is available in streaming format

La Monte Young is an American composer living in New York, where he is associated with the group of composers who have derived a good deal of their impetus from the music and personality of John Cage. He was a student at the University of California, where much of his early music was performed in the late 1950’s. Since that time he has gone on to fame as a progenitor of the minimalist music movement. His hypnotic electronic and electric keyboard works, ranging from drones to blues and from equal temperament to just intonation, have maintained their fascination for a growing portion of underground music lovers worldwide. By his own admission he is perhaps the most significant composer since Ludwig van Beethoven. For many years now Young has collaborated with the visual artist Marian Zazeela whose remarkable light environments frame his musical ideas perfectly, surrounding the performance area with illusory effects in radiant lavender and red violets that heighten the listener's attention.

42 for Henry Flynt probably has not been written out as a composition. The number in the title changes from performance to performance, depending on the number of repetitions of the sounds. The orchestration is flexible as well. This realization was performed by Peter Winkler on gong and was recorded at the Third Annual Festival of the Avant Garde in San Francisco, 1965. Its hypnotic character made it a favorite of KPFA Radio listeners for several generations. For more information on essayist and artist Henry Flynt, visit www.henryflynt.org.

This item is part of the collection: Other Minds Archive

Author: La Monte Young
Date: 1965-00-00 00:00:00
Source: Other Minds
Recorded by: KPFA
Keywords: Avantgarde; Experimental; 20th Century Classical; Minimalism

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Notes

All Other Minds programs available, with additional print and photo materials, at http://www.radiOM.org.
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Reviewer: Richard_Friedman - 5 out of 5 stars - November 12, 2004
Subject: 42

I always loved this recording. 42 strikes of a large gong. That's it. But what a sound. Henry Flynt is (still) an interesting character. See http://www.henryflynt.org/
And isn't 42 the answer to everything?

(32/1) La Monte Young, 1966-07-29, La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela / Terry Riley / Tony Conrad – The Celebration Of The Tortoise, Amagansett, Long Island, NY, US

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La Monte Young

2008
the celebration of the tortoise

[audio,mp3]#695032001

01 the celebration of the tortoise (00:30:46)

(11/1) La Monte Young, 1968-08-05, Drift Study 4:37:40-5:09:50 PM 5 VIII 68 NYC

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La Monte Young

[audio,flac]#695011001

drift study 68 viii 5
(reel to feel bootleg)

1. Drift Study (00:09:10)
2. Drift Study (00:29:15)

(400/1) La Monte Young, 1968-08-05, Drift Study 4:37:40-5:09:50 PM 5 VIII 68 NYC

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(40/1) La Monte Young, 1969-01-31, Jackson MacLow / La Monte Young – Aspen Magazine No. 8 Fall-Winter Drift Study 31 1 69

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http://www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen8/index.html

Aspen no.8

Jackson MacLow : Young Turtle Assymetries
9 mins. 53 secs.
mp3 : 2.8 MB file, bitrate 40 Kbitssec

La Monte Young : Drift Study 31 1 69
9 mins. 58 secs.
mp3 : 2.8 MB file, bitrate 40 Kbitssec

(1/1) La Monte Young, 1969-07-31, La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM Munich From Map Of 49 s Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery [22:45], Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany

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The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs.

AGP1-154 are now available for direct download in the archive at www.avantgardeproject.org
AGP155-158 and other AGP installments are also available at http://thepiratebay.org/user/loudav

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AGP159 is the second featuring the work of the legendary pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young. This one features The Black Record, which was released originally on LP in a numbered edition of 2800. The files included in this installment appear to have come from a CD original, but I haven't seen any mention elsewhere of a CD reissue. If this is ultimately an LP transcription, it was done with unknown equipment.

I was only given the data files, so I have no scans of the liner notes. I have appended below everything I was readily able to find out about this release. For more information on La Monte Young, see the Wikipedia article on him, or visit his website at:

http://www.melafoundation.org/lmy.htm

I was originally going to include in this installment a transcription of the 2000 CD issue of "Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. 1: Day of Niagara", which was recorded in 1965, but the composer's statement criticizing the release has persuaded me otherwise. For more information, see:

http://www.melafoundation.org/statemen.htm

Instead, I have included two versions of side B, one of which has been slowed down by 50%, equivalent to playing the 33 1/3 rpm LP at 16 2/3 rpm, as the composer suggests as one possibility in the liner notes quoted below. The effect is vaguely reminiscent of Iannis Xenakis' electroacoustic work Bohor.

A: 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM Munich From Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery [22:45]
B: 23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM The Volga Delta From Studies In The Bowed Disc [20:07]
B: 23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM The Volga Delta From Studies In The Bowed Disc (half-speed) [40:14]

Artwork By [Cover, Labels, Design, Calligraphy] - Marian Zazeela
Composed By, Producer - La Monte Young
Gong [Bowed] - La Monte Young (tracks: B) , Marian Zazeela (tracks: B)
Other [Liner Notes] - La Monte Young
Voice - Marian Zazeela (tracks: A)
Voice, Electronics [Sine Wave Drone] - La Monte Young (tracks: A)

Side A: "Play this side at 33 1/3 rpm only."
Side B: "To listen to the live performance, playback at 33 1/3 rpm. However, this side may be played back at any slower constant speed down to 8 1/3 rpm, i.e., 16 2/3 rpm which is available on some turntables."

Numbered edition limited to 2800 copies of which numbers 1-98 are dated and signed by the artists.

The Wire, Issue #178 (December '98)
La Monte Young on record [excerpt]
By Edwin Pouncey
http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/192/

"Young and [Marian] Zazeela recorded their first full length album [in 1969] in Munich for Heiner Friedrich's Edition X label. It was Friedrich who later found the couple's Dream House in Harrison Street, New York. A limited edition of 2000, 98 of which were signed and dated by the artists, it came to be known as The Black Record, thanks to Zazeela's black on black cover and label artwork. Side one is a section of Map Of 49's Dream, performed by Young on sinewave drone and voice, with vocal accompaniment by Zazeela. Side two's extract from Study For The Bowed Disc features the duo bowing a gong given to them by sculptor Robert Morris. He had made it for his dance piece, War, and asked Young to play it for the performance. Afterwards Morris presented the gong to Young, and he started to experiment on it with double bass bows. If you follow Young's recommendation to turn it up and play it slow, the resulting low, thrilling drone is at once spiritual and slightly threatening, as though dark forces are being summoned to the surface. Long before Keiji Haino adopted black to shroud himself and his work, Marian Zazeela was embedding her calligraphic lettering and designs in purple and black. The point is to focus on her artwork while concentrating on the vocal/sinewave drones of Young's dream music."

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are not currently available commercially. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.

(495/1) La Monte Young, 1969-08-03, Dream House, A 37 90 89, Antwert, Belgium

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(498/1) La Monte Young, 1973-05-12, Flux-Concert, Egyetemi Színpad, Budapest, Hungary

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(3/1) La Monte Young, 1974, The Theatre Of Eternal Music – Dream House 78 17

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La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela

Dream House 78'17"

01 - side 1 - The Théâtre of Eternal Music 13 I 73 5:35-6:14:03 PM NYC (39'03")
02 - side 2 - Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27-10:15:33 PM NYC (38'14")
(Map of 49's Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic lntervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery)

Shandar Disques 83.510 (Paris l974) LP


Declicked and side 2 filtered according to notes:

For the maximum fidelity on side 2, reduce the treble controls on your amplifier to minimum.
since the sine waves have no harmonic content, and are all below 202.5 Hertz, this will reduce the surface noise that is normal on most discs.

As a sidenote, this is the longest vinyl album I know of, being almost 40 minutes a side.

(3/16) La Monte Young, 1974, The Theatre Of Eternal Music – Dream House 78 17

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La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela

The Theatre Of Eternal Music

Dream House 78'17"
(LP, Album)
Shandar
83.510 France 1974


1 - 13 I 73 5:35-6:14:03 PM NYC 39:03
Trombone – Garrett List
Trumpet - Jon Hassell
Voice - Marian Zazeela
Voice, Electronics [Sine Waves] – La Monte Young

2 - Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27-10:06:41 PM NYC 39:14
Electronics [Sine Waves] – La Monte Young


Crédits
Cover [Label, Design, Calligraphy] – Marian Zazeela
Photography By [Cover Photo] – Robert Adler

Notes
A. 13 I 73 5:35 - 6:14:03 PM NYC is a sub-section of Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery, begun in 1966 as a section of the even longer work: The Tortoise, His Dreams And Journeys which was begun in 1964 with The Theatre Of Eternal Music. Performed 17 January 1973 at La Monte Young's private studio.
B. Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27 - 10:06:41 PM NYC Three sine waves. Frequencies and voltages of the sine waves determined and tuned by La Monte Young using oscillators custom designed by Rober Adler to generate specific frequencies and voltages of great stability. Performed 14 July 1973 at La Monte Young's private studio.

For the maximum fidelity on Side 2, reduce the treble controls on your pre-amplifier to minimum. Since the sine waves have no harmonic content, and all are below 202.5 Hertz, this will reduce the surface noise which is normal on most discs. Note: Be sure to keep the treble controls normal on Side 1.

(496/1) La Monte Young, 1975-03-24, Flux-Harpsichord, 80 Wooster street, New York, NY, US

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(4/1) La Monte Young, 1987, The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25 6:17:50-11:18:59 PM NYC

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The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs.

AGP1-154 are now available for direct download in the archive at www.avantgardeproject.org
AGP155-159 and other AGP installments are also available at http://thepiratebay.org/user/loudav

NOTE: Since this week's installment is so lengthy, the AGP will be taking a well-deserved week off. Look for AGP161 on December 4th.

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AGP160 is the third installment featuring the work of the legendary pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young. This one features his acknowledged masterwork, The Well Tuned Piano, on 5 CDs. I have to admit that I've been preoccupied with other things the past couple of weeks, so I've only begun to be mesmerized by this unique work. But I can say that it makes the work of other minimalists seem, well, maximalist in comparison.

I was only given the data files, so I have no scans of the liner notes. I have appended below everything I was readily able to find out about this release. For more information on La Monte Young, see the Wikipedia article on him, or visit his website at:

http://www.melafoundation.org/lmy.htm

La Monte Young - The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC
Label: Gramavision
Catalog#: 18-8701-1
Format: 5 x CD Box Set
Country: US
Released: 1987
Genre: Classical
Style: Contemporary

Tracklist
CD 1 The Well-Tuned Piano Part 1 59:17
CD 2 The Well-Tuned Piano Part 2 1:00:33
CD 3 The Well-Tuned Piano Part 3 1:01:14
CD 4 The Well-Tuned Piano Part 4 1:00:47
CD 5 The Well-Tuned Piano Part 5 59:58

Composed By, Producer, Piano - La Monte Young
Producer - David Farneth , Marian Zazeela

Performed by La Monte Young in a setting of The Magenta Lights by Marian Zazeela. Recorded live at the last 6 Harrison Street Dream House concert of The Well Tuned Piano, New York City, October 1981, presented by DIA Foundation.

A brief discussion of the tuning can be found here: http://www.kylegann.com/wtp.html
A goodly selection of quotes from reviews of the work can be found here: http://www.melafoundation.org/quotwtp.htm
If you prefer mp3s, I'm pretty sure you can find them here: http://direct-waves.blogspot.com/2007/02/la-monte-young-well-tuned-piano.html

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are not currently available commercially. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.

(25/1) La Monte Young, 1989-06-08, Poem for Chairs, Tables, Benches, etc. - Tellus, The Audio Cassette Magazine #24 - FluxTellus, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

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La Monte Young

1990
Tellus#24 FluxTellus

89 VI 8 C. 142-152 AM Paris Encore from Poem for Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc.

[audio,mp3]#695025001

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Tellus#24 FluxTellus

01 Tomas Schmit ‘No. 13 [from Sanitas – 200 Theatre Pieces, 1962]’ (0:07)
02 George Brecht & James Tenney with George Maciunas ‘Entrance… (excerpt)’ (1:46)
03 Emmett Williams ‘Voice Piece for La Monte Young’ (0:04)
04 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
05 Joe Jones ‘Flux Music Box’ (2:36)
06 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
07 Jackson Mac Low ‘A Piece for Sari Dienes’ (10:03)
08 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13' (0:07)
09 La Monte Young ’89 VI 8 c. 1:42-1:52 AM Paris Encore’ (10:33)
10 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
11 Philip Corner ‘Carrot Chew Performance’ (3:29)
12 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
13 Dick Higgins ‘Danger Music Number Seventeen’ (0:26)
14 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
15 George Brecht & James Tenney with George Maciunas ‘… Exit (excerpt)’ (1:45)
16 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
17 George Maciunas ‘Solo for Lips and Tongue’ (1:36)
18 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
19 Yasunao Tone ‘Anagram for Strings’ (6:58)
20 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
21 Alison Knowles ‘Nivea Cream Piece – for Emmet Williams’ (2:41)
22 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
23 Takehisa Kosugi ‘Micro 1’ (2:40)
24 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
25 Emmett Williams ‘Cellar Song for Five Voices’ (12:32)
26 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
27 Larry Miller ‘Lullaby for George Maciunas’ (2:58)
28 Tomas Schmit ‘No 13’ (0:07)
29 Robert Watts and Larry Miler ‘Laff Trace (excerpt)’ (0:53)

Total time 60:00
Cassette curated by Barbara Moore, released by Harvestworks, 1990
(comes with Takako Saito‘s Sound Box, 2 steel ball bearings inserted in the cassette holes, making rattling sounds when shaken)

(42/1) La Monte Young, 1990, Chronos Kristalla

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La Monte Young

Chronos Kristalla

1990

1 Chronos Kristalla (1995) 01:11:51
2 Chronos Kristalla (1995) 00:15:03

(5/1) La Monte Young, 1991, The Melodic Version (1984) Of The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China (1962)

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La Monte Young

The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China

1991

The Melodic Version (1984) Of The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China (1962) 1:17:05

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The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs.

AGP1-154 are now available for direct download in the archive at www.avantgardeproject.org
AGP155-157 and other AGP installments are also available at http://thepiratebay.org/user/loudav

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I was going to continue with the US Electronc Music series this week, but I stumbled upon a cache of out-of-print CDs by the legendary pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young, and so AGP158 is the first of (probably) three devoted to his work. These CDs are so rare that used copies of some of them sell for hundreds of dollars each.

This week's installment features The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer, from The Four Dreams of China (1962), from a 1991 Gramavision CD (R2-79467). The recording features The Theatre Of Eternal Music Brass Ensemble led by trumpeter Ben Neill. Here the sustained tones produced by the brass section eerily imitate the sounds of the electrical power transformers that Young remembers listening to as a child in Bern, Idaho. This is music stripped down to its bare essentials--just four notes, in fact--so that the harmonic relationships between the complex timbres of those notes can be relished. This work makes the more austere passages in Horatiu Radulecu's Inner Time II (AGP109) sound in comparison like piece by Conlon Nancarrow. It's not for everyone.

I was only given the data files from these CDs, so I have no scans of the liner notes. For more information on La Monte Young, see the Wikipedia article on him.

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are not currently available commercially. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.



Commentaires

(5/2) La Monte Young, 1991, The Melodic Version (1984) Of The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China (1962)

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La Monte Young

The First Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From the Four Dreams of China (World Premier)

1.01 - Part I. 3:57:00
1.02 - Part II. 6:05:00
1.03 - Part III. 5:48:00
1.04 - Part IV. 18:09:00
2.01 - Part V. 43:33:00

Total 01:17:32

(21/1) La Monte Young, 1992, Unknown Recordings

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La Monte Young

May Be / Unknown Recordings
[Audio,Mp3]#695021001

01. 19.10.71 (6.52-7.42pm NYC) (18:41)
02. Sunday Morning Blues (12:07)
03. 5th Day Of The Hammer Bflat (11:55)
04. Early Well Tuned Piano #1 (13:08)
05. Early Well Tuned Piano #2 (4:06)
06. Early Well Tuned Piano #3 (3:38)
07. Early Well Tuned Piano #4 (9:35)

Musicians?:
la Monte Young, John Cale, Terry Rieling, Angus MacLise

(38/1) La Monte Young, 1992, Terry S G Dorian Blues (Jon Gibson : In Good Company)

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La Monte Young

4 Terry's G Dorian Blues : Baritone Saxophone – Jon Gibson Composed By – Terry JenningsOrgan – Michael Riesman Percussion – Bill RuylePiano [Digital] – La Monte Young 5:19

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Jon Gibson
In Good Company

Point Music ?– 434 873-2
CD US 1992

1 Waltz : Composed By – Jon GibsonPiano – Martin Goldray 4:07
2 Pat's Aria : Alto Saxophone – Jon GibsonComposed By – John AdamsPiano – Martin Goldray 7:47
3 Reed Phase : Composed By – Steve Reich 6:14
4 Terry's G Dorian Blues : Baritone Saxophone – Jon GibsonComposed By – Terry JenningsOrgan – Michael RiesmanPercussion – Bill RuylePiano [Digital] – La Monte Young 5:19
5 Bed : Composed By – Philip Glass 6:56
6 Tread On The Trail : Composed By – Terry Riley 7:24
7 Song : Composed By – Jon Gibson 4:19
8 Gradus (For Jon Gibson) : Composed By – Philip Glass 10:57
9 Extensions II : Bongos – Bill RuyleConch [Conch Shell], Rainstick – John SnyderPercussion, Keyboards, Composed By – Jon Gibson 10:39

(438/1) La Monte Young, 1992, Sunday AM Blues / B? Dorian Blues / The Well Tuned Piano / Map Of 49 s Dream

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La Monte Young

Sunday AM Blues / B♭ Dorian Blues / The Well Tuned Piano / Map Of 49's Dream

Label: RRRip – RIP 006

US / 1992

A1 Radio Announcer
A2 12 I 64 Sunday Morning Blues
A3 Radio Announcer
A4 B♭ Dorian Blues Saturday 19th November 1963 - 5th Day Of The Hammer
B1 Radio Announcer
B2 The Well Tuned Piano 8 VI 64 - Day Of Gammedeon
C The Well Tuned Piano 8 VI 64 - Day Of Gammedeon
D1 Radio Announcer
D2 19 X 71 6:52 To 7:42 NYC From Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery

(34/1) La Monte Young, 1992-08-06, Young S Dorian Blues In G, Spektrum, Augsburg, Germany

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La Monte Young & The Forever Bad Blues Band

In Augsburg

Country:Japan

1-1 Young's Dorian Blues In G Part 1
2-1 Young's Dorian Blues In G Part 2

Bass – Brad Catler
Drums – Jonathan Kane
Guitar – Jon Catler
Lighting Director – Marian Zazeela
Synthesizer – La Monte Young

Recorded Live at Spektrum, Augsburg, Germany August 6, 1992

(34/2) La Monte Young, 1992-08-06, Young S Dorian Blues In G, Spektrum, Augsburg, Germany

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LA MONTE YOUNG 1992-08-06 AUGSBURG audience recording

La Monte Young
The Forever Bad Blues Band

Spektrum
Augsburg
06 August 1992

"Young's Dorian Blues in G"

01: Part 1 (46 mins 57 secs)
02: Part 2 (46 mins 54 secs)
03: Part 3 (21 mins 28 secs)

La Monte Young: Korg synthesizer
Jon Catler: guitar
Brad Catler: bass
Jonathon Kane: drums

lineage: (unknown generation) SONY UX-S C90 and C60 cassette(s) - Pioneer CT-S670D player - wav - flac (level 8) - you

original recording engineer unknown
transfer to wav June 2009 by lurid_uk
uploaded to Dime June 2009 by lurid_uk

La Monte Young had been invited to appear in Augsburg in conjunction with the "Pop Goes Art" exhibition, and this performance of "Young's Dorian Blues in G" was accompanied by "Ornamental Lightyears Tracery", projected by Marion Zazeela.

Here's how Jutta and Carsten Brandt reported on the exhibition itself:

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POP GOES ART - ANDY WARHOL & VELVET UNDERGROUND

November 29 - December 7, 1990, Hamburg, Germany
This first exhibition came up in the Phonotek of the Hamburger Kunsthalle. In addition to the printed catalog-box, it was the combination of an installation of tape decks that played the most important recordings together with the exhibited records, books, posters, and photographs that illustrated the work of Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground. Also, the most influential work of such great artists as Angus MacLise, Gerard Malanga, La Monte Young, and Maria Zazeela was displayed in some examples. A very important part of the catalog box and the exhibition were the wonderful photos by Lisa Law.

August 5 - September 27, 1992, Augsburg, Germany
The second exhibition came up in a much bigger setting in an exhibition space named the Zeughaus. Of course, the idea and the concept for the exhibition was nearly the same than the first time, but the exhibition space could be divided in special sections. That made possible for every aspect to be documented on its own. It was possible to invite Nat Finkelstein, Gerard Malanga, Sterling Morrison, Maureen Tucker, La Monte Young and Maria Zazeela to show parts of their most influential work in the context of the Warhol/Velvets history. Lots of rare books, posters, records, photographs, and drawings were displayed for the first time. A program of films by Gerard Malanga, Jonas Mekas, Paul Morissey, Ron Rice, Jack Smith, and Andy Warhol took place as a side program during the weeks the exhibition was opened.

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This isn't a great recording, but it's not too bad. It is in stereo, but there's not much dynamic range. I received the recording in 3 parts, spread over 2 cassettes: I have left it that way so it can be easily burnt onto 3 CDRs.

some scans included:
1. Young and Zazeela in Augsburg
2. tickets + programme for the "Pop Goes Art" exhibition
3. programme for the La Monte Young performance

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(6/1) La Monte Young, 1993, On Remembering A Naiad (Arditti String Quartet) USA

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La Monte Young

[audio,mp3]#695006001

On Remembering A Naiad

1. Five Small Pieces For String Quartet - A Wisp (00:01:06)
2. Five Small Pieces For String Quartet - A Gnarl (00:01:19)
3. Five Small Pieces For String Quartet - A Leaf (00:01:12)
4. Five Small Pieces For String Quartet - A Twig (00:01:15)
5. Five Small Pieces For String Quartet - A Tooth (00:01:33)

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Arditti String Quartet
U.S.A

– Conlon Nancarrow String Quartet N°1
1 – Allegro Molto
2 - Andante Moderato
3 - Prestissimo
4 – Elliott Carter Elegy - Adagio Sostenuto
5 – Charles E. Ives Scherzo - Fast - Slow - Fast
6 – Jay Alan Yim Autumn Rhythm
7 – Morton Feldman Structures - Soft As Possible
8 – Alvin A. Lucier Fragments
– La Monte Young On Remembering A Naiad
9 - A Wisp
10 - A Gnarl
11 - A Leaf
12 - A Twig
13 - A Tooth
14 – John Cage Four
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(30/1) La Monte Young, 1993, Sarabande (Just West Coast : John Schneider, Amy Shulman)

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La Monte Young

1993
Just West Coast
(John Schneider, Amy Shulman)#695030001

[audio,mp3]

01 - lou harrison - suite no. 2 - jahla.mp3
02 - lou harrison - suite no. 2 - waltz for evelyn hinrechsen.mp3
03 - lou harrison - suite no. 2 - threnody.mp3
04 - lou harrison - suite no. 2 - sonata in ishartum.mp3
05 - lou harrison - suite no. 2 - beverly's troubadour piece.mp3

06 - la monte young - sarabande.mp3

07 - harry partch - two studies on ancient greek scales - study on olympos' pentatonic.mp3
08 - harry partch - two studies on ancient greek scales - study on archytas' enharmonic.mp3
09 - harry partch - barstow (8 hitchhikers' inscriptions) - no. 1. today i am a man.mp3
10 - harry partch - barstow (8 hitchhikers' inscriptions) - no. 2. gentlemen.mp3
11 - harry partch - barstow (8 hitchhikers' inscriptions) - no. 3. considered pretty.mp3
12 - harry partch - barstow (8 hitchhikers' inscriptions) - no. 4. a very good idea.mp3
13 - harry partch - barstow (8 hitchhikers' inscriptions) - no. 5. possible rides.mp3
14 - harry partch - barstow (8 hitchhikers' inscriptions) - no. 6. jesus was god in the flesh.mp3
15 - harry partch - barstow (8 hitchhikers' inscriptions) - no. 7. you lucky women.mp3
16 - harry partch - barstow (8 hitchhikers' inscriptions) - no. 8. why in hell did you come.mp3

17 - john cage - dream.mp3
18 - john cage - in a landscape.mp3

19 - lou harrison - six sonatas no. 1 (moderato).mp3
20 - lou harrison - six sonatas no. 2 (allegro).mp3
21 - lou harrison - six sonatas no. 3 (moderato).mp3
22 - lou harrison - six sonatas no. 4 (allegro).mp3
23 - lou harrison - six sonatas no. 5 (moderato).mp3
24 - lou harrison - six sonatas no. 6 (allegro).mp3

(7/1) La Monte Young, 1993-01-15, [Releases/Albums,Gramavision], The Kitchen 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY, US

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La Monte Young, The Forever Bad Blues Band

Just Stompin' (Live At The Kitchen)

Young's Dorian Blues In G (Bb = 60 Hz)
1-1 Just Stompin' 61:52
2-1 Just Stompin' 60:23

Recorded live and mixed direct to digital in concert, January 14, 1993

(36/1) La Monte Young, 1995, Dream House (Excerpt) (Fluxus Anthology)

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La Monte Young

A3 –La Monte Young Dream House (Excerpt) 3:45

----------
Fluxus Anthology

Recorthings & Zona Archives
Italy 1989

A1 –Walter Marchetti Per La Sete Dell'Orecchio (Excerpt) 2:13
A2 –Juan Hidalgo Tamaran (Excerpt) 3:50
A3 –La Monte Young Dream House (Excerpt) 3:45
A4 –Ben Vautier Some Ideas For Fluxus 1:23
A5 –Wolf Vostell Elektronischer Dècoll/age. Happening Raum 3:00
A6 –Milan Knižák* Broken Music Composition 3:26
A7 –Robert Filliou Imitating The Sound Of The Birds 0:55
A8 –Alison Knowles Natural Assemblage. Le Vrai Corbeau 5:05
A9 –Emmett Williams Duet 1:50
B1 –John Cage Radio Music 4:32
B2 –Joseph Beuys Sonne Stat Reagan 3:33
B3 –Yoko Ono Toilette Piece 0:30
B4 –Dick Higgins B.B. Finally Dreams About Life, B.B.'s, You Play It 1:35
B5 –Philip Corner Car Passing At Night, Country Road In Maine 1:05
B6 –Eric Andersen Untactis Of Music 2:32
B7 –Robert Watts Interview 1:25
B8 –Nam June Paik My Jubilee Ist Unverhemmet 5:15
B9 –Ken Friedman Orchestra Requiem Variations 3:00

(43/1) La Monte Young, 1995, The Theatre Of Eternal Music (ToEM bootleg LP (DH100, 1995))

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La Monte Young

The Theatre Of Eternal Music

Saxophone [Sopranino] - La Monte Young (tracks: A1, A2)
Saxophone [Soprano] - Terry Jennings (tracks: A1, A2)
Viola - John Cale
Violin - Tony Conrad
Voice - Marian Zazeela

Notes:

+Silkscreened jacket. Limited, numbered edition of 200.
+ToEM bootleg LP (DH100, 1995)

Tracklisting:

A1 B. Dorian Blues : Drums [Hand] - Angus Maclise
A2 Pre-Tortoise Dream Music
B The Tortoise, His Dreams And Journeys : Electronics [Sine Waves] - La Monte Young , Marian Zazeela

(15/1) La Monte Young, 1997, Composition 1960 (Stephanie McCallum)

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La Monte Young

[Audio,mp3]#695015001

12. Composition 1960 (00:01:13)
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Stephanie McCallum
Illegal Harmonies (The 20th Century Piano)

01. erik satie - gnossienne no 1
02. maurice ravel - menuet antique
03. scott joplin - original rags
04. percy grainger - 'mo nighean dubh'
05. claude debussy - 'doctor gradus ad parnassum'
06. arnold schoenberg - 'walzer'
07. igor stravinsky - rondoletto
08. george gershwin - 'i got rythm'
09. olivier messiaen - 'mode de valuers et d'intensites'
10. john cage - music of changes
11. karlheinz stockhausen - klavierstuck v
12. lamonte young - composition 1960
13. luciano berio - erdenklavier
14. aaron copland - night thoughts ('homageto ives')
15. anne boyd - angklung
16. gyorgy ligeti - 'arc-en-ciel'
17. arvo part - fur alina
18. toru takemitsu - rain tree sketch ii
19. elena kats-chernin - the schubert blues
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(19/1) La Monte Young, 1997, Chemins De La Musique-La Monte Young

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La Monte Young

[Audio,Mp3]#695019001

Les chemins de la musique - La Monte Young
Vous avez dit minimalisme ?

Par Daniel Caux

(00:29:01)
Réalisation, Gérard Brodin
1ère diffusion : 28/10/1997

(8/1) La Monte Young, 1999, La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela – The Tamburas Of Pandit Pran Nath 82 VII 15 C. 6:35-7:35PM + C. 6:37-6:52PM NYC

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The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs.

AGP1-154 are now available for direct download in the archive at www.avantgardeproject.org
AGP155-160 and other AGP installments are also available at http://thepiratebay.org/user/loudav

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AGP161 is the fourth installment featuring the work of the legendary pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young. This one comprises The Tamburas Of Pandit Pran Nath, with Marian Zazeela. It will appeal to all those people who, while listening to Indian Classical Music, have wished that the sitars and vinas would just stop their noodling and let the rich timbres of the tamburas cascade out on their own. It is the droniest of drone music.

I was only given the data files, so I have no scans of the liner notes. I have appended below everything I was readily able to find out about this release. For more information on La Monte Young, see the Wikipedia article on him, or visit his website at:

http://www.melafoundation.org/lmy.htm

La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela - The Tamburas Of Pandit Pran Nath
Label: Just Dreams
Catalog#: JD 001
Format: CD, Enhanced
Country: US
Released: 1999

01 - "82 VII 15 C. 6:35-7:35PM + C. 6:37-6:52PM NYC" [1:13:58]

NOTES FROM THE CD:

Recorded by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela in 1982, it is made available in a limited edition on CD as an homage to their guru. This recording was used by Pandit Pran Nath for his own practice for many years. Accompanied by a booklet that includes two color and seven black and white photographs as well as extensive documentation prepared by Young and Zazeela regarding the origins and history of the Tambura and its significance in the Indian classical vocal style of Kirana as practiced and taught by Pandit Pran Nath, this 74-minute CD represents Young's best recorded tambura tuning. In his introduction to the notes, Terry Riley writes, "This recording is an invaluable artifact, destined to become a cherished classic, valued for years to come by those able to appreciate the subtle vibratory qualities of this High Art."

The tamburas are played at Jora Sa 120 Hz, Pa 90 Hz, Kuraj Sa 60 Hz (low B pitch).

This is a custom First CD Edition limited to the number that can be personally supervised by La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela. The 44-page printed booklet and silkscreened disc are packaged inside a double-size plastic CD jewel case.

A REVIEW:

http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1874

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are not currently available commercially. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.

(2/1) La Monte Young, 2000, Drift Study Excerpt (OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (1948-1980)

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La Monte Young

[audio,mp3]#695002001

Excerpt

2-13 "31I69 C. 12:17:33-12:25:33 PM NYC" From : Drift Study
"31I69 C. 12:17:33-12:24:33 PM NYC" From : Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals
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OHM: the early gurus of electronic music

1-1 –Clara Rockmore Tchaikovsky: Valse Sentimentale
1-2 –Olivier Messiaen Oraison
1-3 –Pierre Schaeffer Etude Aux Chemins De Fer
1-4 –John Cage Williams Mix
1-5 –Herbert Eimert & Robert Beyer Klangstudie II
1-6 –Otto Luening Low Speed
1-7 –Hugh Le Caine Dripsody
1-8 –Louis And Bebe Barron Main Title From Forbidden Planet
1-9 –Oskar Sala Concertando Rubato From Electronische Tanzsuite
1-10 –Edgard Varèse Poeme Electronique
1-11 –Richard Maxfield Sine Music (A Swarm Of Butterflies Encountered Over The Ocean)
1-12 –Tod Dockstader Apocalypse – Part 2
1-13 –Karlheinz Stockhausen Kontakte
1-14 –Vladimir Ussachevsky Wireless Fantasy
1-15 –Milton Babbitt Philomel
1-16 –MEV* Spacecraft

2-1 –Raymond Scott Cindy Electronium
2-2 –Steve Reich Pendulum Music
2-3 –Pauline Oliveros Bye Bye Butterfly
2-4 –Joji Yuasa Projection Esemplastic For White Noise
2-5 –Morton Subotnick Silver Apples Of The Moon, Part 1
2-6 –David Tudor Rainforest Version 1
2-7 –Terry Riley Poppy Nogood
2-8 –Holger Czukay Boat-Woman-Song
2-9 –Luc Ferrari Music Promenade
2-10 –François Bayle Rosace 3 From Vibrations Composées
2-11 –Jean-Claude Risset Mutations
2-12 –Iannis Xenakis Hibiki-Hana-Ma
2-13 –La Monte Young Excerpt
"31I69 C. 12:17:33-12:25:33 PM NYC" From: Drift Study
"31I69 C. 12:17:33-12:24:33 PM NYC" From: Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals

3-1 –Charles Dodge He Destroyed Her Image
3-2 –Paul Lansky Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion: Her Song
3-3 –Laurie Spiegel Appalachian Grove I
3-4 –Bernard Parmegiani En Phase/Hors Phase
3-5 –David Behrman On The Other Ocean
3-6 –John Chowning Stria
3-7 –Maryanne Amacher Living Sound, Patent Pending Music For Sound-Joined Rooms Series
3-8 –Robert Ashley Automatic Writing
3-9 –Alvin Curran Canti Illuminati
3-10 –Alvin Lucier Music On A Long Thin Wire
3-11 –Klaus Schulze Melange
3-12 –Jon Hassell Before And After Charm (La Notte)
3-13 –Brian Eno Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills)
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(9/1) La Monte Young, 2000, John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela – Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara (1965)

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John Cale / Tony Conrad / Angus MacLise / La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela

Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I : Day Of Niagara (1965)

Table Of The Elements
(CD, Album)
W 74, TOE-CD-74 UK 2000


1 - Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara (1965) 30:52


Credits
Composed By, Performer – Angus MacLise, John Cale, La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela, Tony Conrad
Design, Art Direction – Jeff Hunt, Susan Archie
Executive-Producer [Executive Production] – Jeff Hunt, Kris Johnson, Zach Cincotta
Illustration – Tia Umberger
Layout [Additional] – Henry H. Owings

Percussion – Angus MacLise
Viola – John Cale
Violin – Tony Conrad
Vocals – La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela

Notes
Original Recording: New York City, 25th April 1965.
Thank You - Susan Archie, Stephen Fenton, Lance Ledbetter, Edward Lindahl, Hetty MacLise, Ossian MacLise, Jon Philpot and John Fahey's Revenant
Impossible Without - Dean Blackwood
Composed and performed by John Cale (John Cale Music Inc., BMI), Tony Conrad (Tony Conrad Music, ASCAP), Angus MacLise, La Monte Young (Editions Farneth International, BMI), and Marian Zazeela
Original compositions and sound recordings ©? Cale/Conrad/MacLise/Young/Zazeela
This release ©? 2000 Table Of The Elements
Distributed in Europe by Cargo Records

(13/1) La Monte Young, 2000, La Monte Young - Marian Zazeela – The Well-Tuned Piano In The Magenta Lights: 87 V 10 6:43:00 PM - 87 V 11 1:07:45 AM NY

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La Monte Young

[video,avi]#695013001

The Well Tuned Piano in The Magenta Lights
87 V 10 64300 PM 87 V 10 010745 AM NYC

(37/1) La Monte Young, 2002, Mieko Shiomi Fluxus Suite

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La Monte Young

----------
Mieko Shiomi

Fluxus Suite (A Musical Dictionary Of 80 People Around Fluxus)

CD Germany 2002

1 Dietrich Albrecht
2 Eric Andersen
3 Ay-O
4 Michael Berger
5 Joseph Beuys
6 René Block
7 Luigi Bonotto
8 George Brecht
9 Stanley Brouwn
10 Jean Brown
11 John Cage
12 Giuseppe Chiari
13 Henri Chopin
14 Henning Christiansen
15 Christo
16 Francesco Conz
17 Philip Corner
18 Jacques Donguy
19 Jean Dupuy
20 Esther Ferrer
21 Robert Filliou
22 Henry Flynt
23 Ken Friedman
24 Allen Ginsberg
25 Ludwig Gosewitz
26 Al Hansen
27 Geoffrey Hendricks
28 Jon Hendricks
29 Juan Hidalgo
30 Dick Higgins
31 Davi Det Hompson
32 Armin Hundertmark
33 Alice Hutchins
34 Joe Jones
35 Allan Kaprow
36 Bengt af Klintberg
37 Milan Knizak
38 Alison Knowles
39 Arthur Koepcke
40 Takehisa Kosugi
41 Shigeko Kubota
42 Vytautas Landsbergis
43 Jean Jacques Lebel
44 George Maciunas
45 Jackson Mac Low
46 Gino Di Maggio
47 Walter Marchetti
48 Jonas Mekas
49 Larry Miller
50 Barbara Moore
51 Peter Moore
52 Charlotte Moorman
53 Hermann Nitsch
54 Serge Oldenbourg
55 Pauline Oliveros
56 Yoko Ono (Silence)
57 Nam June Paik
58 Ben Patterson
59 Willem de Ridder
60 Dieter Roth
61 Harry Ruhé
62 Gerhard Rühm
63 Takako Saito
64 Gianni Sassi
65 Tomas Schmit
66 Carolee Schneemann
67 Mieko Shiomi
68 Gilbert Silverman
69 Gianni-Emilio Simonetti
70 Hanns Sohm
71 Daniel Spoerri
72 Yasunao Tone
73 Endre Tót
74 Ben Vautier
75 Wolf Vostell
76 Yoshimasa Wada
77 Robert Watts
78 Emmett Williams
79 La Monte Young
80 Marian Zazeela

Mieko Shiomi : To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Fluxus, I composed eighty short musical pieces for eighty Fluxus people

(10/1) La Monte Young, 2003, Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung (1957-1973)

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La Monte Young

'Der Zweck dieser Musik ist nicht Unterhaltung'
1957 - 1973

Volume 1

Disc One
1. Day Of The Anger (1964) (00:26:08)
2. For Brass Excerpt (1957) (00:21:02)
3. Poem For Chairs, Tables, Benches, etc (1960) (00:15:48)

Disc Two
1.BB Dorian Blues 28 (1963) (00:18:51)
2. Early Tuesday Morning Morn (1963) (00:14:16)
3. Tortoise's Dream (1966) (00:19:28)
4. Well Tuned Piano (1964) (00:11:01)

Volume 2

Disc Three
1. Drift Study vii68 (1968) (00:04:06)
2. Map Of 49's Dream (1966) (00:35:28)
3. Volga Delta 23 EXC (1959) (00:21:39)

Disc Four
1. 13-73 Excerpt (1973) (00:05:03)
2. Rag Bhairava Excerpt (1960) (00:35:11)
3. Soundtone Installation 27/72 (1972) (00:24:56)

(20/1) La Monte Young, 2003, Pandit Pran Nath Midnight Raga Malkauns

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La Monte Young

[Audio,Mp3]#695020001

Pandit Pran Nath

Midnight / Raga Malkauns
Just Dreams JD 003
Jan/2004

cd 1 "4 VIII 71 San Francisco" Raga Malkauns [46:15]

Pandit Pran Nath, voice
Terry Riley, tabla
Ann Riley, tambura
Simne Forti, tambura

cd 2 "21 VIII 76 NYC" Raga Malkauns [61:53]

Pandit Pran Nath, voice
K. Paramjyoti, tabla
La Monte Young, tambura
Marian Zazeela, tambura

"When he would sing, the raga would manifest in the walls" -Terry Riley

A long-awaited release from La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's archives featuring two hour-long ragas by one of India's most important singers of the 20th century, Pandit Pran Nath. Born in 1918, Pandit Pran Nath began seriously studying the raga at the age of six. Possessed with a prodigious memory, he would literally spend hours a day singing and learning hundreds of raga compositions and poems, frequently outdoors in forests or in the middle of rivers. He spent several years living in the caves of Tapkeshwar as a holy ascetic, clothed only in ash, singing for hours at a time amidst the other devotees.

By the 1930s he was regularly appearing on All India Radio to great acclaim as the leading interpreter of the Kirana style. He made his first concert appearance in the United States in 1970 and his impact at this time on American musicians and artists is hard to overstate; Terry Riley, La Monte Young, and Marian Zazeela would become formal disciples in a student/guru relationship for many, many years. Some of Pandit Pran Nath's other students included Charlemagne Palestine, Jon Hassell, Yoshi Wada, Henry Flynt, Don Cherry, Rhys Chatham, and Christer Hennix.

The recordings presented here feature Riley, Young, and Zazeela as accompanists, and were made in 1971 and 1977; they are the only available performances on CD at this time. Pandit Pran Nath tended to primarily focus on the alap portion of the raga (which is the more meditative beginning section), often stretching it out to forty or more minutes. That he did so is important in that the qualities that figure prominently in the alap -- the drone and the infinitely subtle pitch relationships between notes -- were what resonated so sharply with the American minimalist composers.

Pandit Pran Nath seems like a force of nature on these performances; you can actually feel his voice in your chest as the ragas unfold. His ability to sustain a note for what seems an eternity, and then continue to provide endless variations in pitch are time disorienting and mind melting. For Pandit Pran Nath, music was the force of god made manifest. That he believed so shows in these tour de force performances which I can't recommend highly enough. [MK-Other Music]

(22/1) La Monte Young, 2003, Works

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La Monte Young

Works
[Audio,Mp3]#695022001

101 - For Brass excerpt (1957) (00:21:02)
102 - Day of the Antler [The Obsedioin Ocelot] excerpt (1964) (00:26:08)
103 - Bb Dorian Blues 28th_63 excerpt (1963) (00:18:51)

201 - Early Tuesday Morning Blues excerpt (1963) (00:14:16)
202 - Map of 49's Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery excerpt (1966) (00:35:28)
203 - Tortoise's Dreams and Journeys... excerpt (1966) (00:19:28)

301 - Rag Bhairava excerpt (1960) (00:35:11)
302 - Soundtone Installation 27_72 excerpt (1972) (00:24:56)

(441/1) La Monte Young, 2003, Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung Vol. 1

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La Monte Young

Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung Vol. 1

US / 2003

1-1 For Brass (Excerpt) 21:02
1-2 Poem For Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc. (Excerpt) 15:48
1-3 Day Of The Antler (The Obsidian Ocelot) 26:08
2-1 The Well-Tuned Piano (Excerpt) 11:01
2-2 B Flat Dorian Blues 28th/63 (Excerpt) 18:51
2-3 Early Tuesday Morning Blues (Excerpt) 14:16
2-4 The Tortoise: His Dreams & Journeys (Excerpt) 19:28

(442/1) La Monte Young, 2003, Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung Vol. 2

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La Monte Young

Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung Vol. 2

US / 2003

1-1 Drift Study VIII68 (Excerpt) 4:07
1-2 Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery (Excerpt) 35:28
1-3 Volga Delta 23 (Excerpt) 21:39
2-1 Raga Bhairava (Excerpt) 35:12
2-2 Soundtone Installation 27/72 (Excerpt) 24:56
2-3 13/73 (Excerpt) 5:04

(510/1) La Monte Young, 2003-08-13, In Conversation with Frank J. Oteri, Dream House

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La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela at the Dream House

In Conversation with Frank J. Oteri

From Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:33 PM to Thursday, August 14, 2003 3:15 AM

Videotaped by Randy Nordschow
Transcribed by Frank J. Oteri, Randy Nordschow,
Amanda MacBlane and Rob Wilkerson
© 2003 La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela
© 2003 NewMusicBox

1. Anahata Nada and Long Sustained Tones
2. Improvisation vs. Composition
3. The Guru-Disciple Relationship
4. The Evolution of The Well-Tuned Piano
5. La Monte's Approach to the Piano
6. The Theatre of Eternal Music
7. Discipline and Relationships
8. Pandit Pran Nath
9. How to Learn
10. On Minimalism
11. Alternative Concert Venues
12. The Experience of the Audience
13. Funding Serious Art in Today's Climate
14. The Record Business
15. DVD
16. The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath
17. Working with Musicians and Orchestras
18. The Sacred and the Profane
19. Fluxus
20. Piano Technique
21. Singing Raga
22. Future Interpreters
23. Choosing Intervals
24. Physical Limitations of Instruments
25. Perceptibility
26. Ragas Using Upper Primes?
27. Appreciation

(35/1) La Monte Young, 2004, 566 For Henry Flynt (Fluxus - Happening - Performance)

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La Monte Young

1 La Monte Young 566 For Henry Flynt Tam-tam – David Tudor 12:07

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Musik In Deutschland 1950-2000 – , Experimentelles Musiktheate ?– Fluxus - Happening - Performance
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CD Germany 2004

1 La Monte Young 566 For Henry Flynt Tam-tam – David Tudor 12:07
2 Ben Patterson Variations For Double-Bass Contrabass – Ben Patterson 11:10
3 György Ligeti Trois Bagatelles Piano – Frederik Ullén 1:23
4 Nam June Paik One For Violin Solo Performer [Aktion] – Stefan Fricke 0:06
5 Wolf Vostell 100 Mal Hören Und Sehen Performer – Wolf Vostell 11:21
6 Joseph Beuys / Nam June Paik In Memoriam George Maciunas Piano, Performer [Aktionen] – Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik 9:43
7 Wolfgang Heisig 7 Klavierzeiten In Einer Salonmusik Von Carl Gäschals, Op.329 Von 1906 "Kletterrosen" Piano – Wolfgang HeisigVoice [Sprecher] – Andreas Jungwirth 4:24
8 Wolfgang Heisig Le Marteau Sans Maître Avec Le Maître Sans Marteau Ensemble – Ensemble L'Art Pour L'Art 12:31
9 Gerhard Stäbler Kalt - Erhitzt Performer – Sigune von Osten 8:29
10 Johannes S. Sistermanns 19.1 Rion Ma Computer – Kazuya IshigamiPiano, Voice [Stimme], Performer [Aktionen] – Johannes S. Sistermanns 6:01

(12/1) La Monte Young, 2006, Just Charles & Cello In The Romantic

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The Avant Garde Project is a series of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic torrents digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. This is wild stuff, so check it out if you've never heard this sort of music before. The analog rig used to extract the sound from the grooves is near state-of-the-art, producing almost none of the tracking distortion or surface noise normally associated with LPs.

AGP1-154 are now available for direct download in the archive at www.avantgardeproject.org
AGP155-161 and other AGP installments are also available at http://thepiratebay.org/user/loudav

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AGP162 is the fifth and (for the time being, I think) final installment in our long-overdue celebration of the work of the legendary pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young. This one features an unauthorized release of what sounds like a concert recording of excerpts from Just Charles & Cello In The Romantic Chord (2002-2003), with Charles Curtis on cello (who is in fact the only cellist authorized to perform this work). The concert performances of this work lasted about four hours, of which about two hours are included in this recording. Professor Curtis plays cello over pre-recorded drones that he controlled on stage by means of foot pedals. The lighting composition was created by Marian Zazeela.

This may be my favorite of the La Monte Young installments. The harmonic explorations are akin to those in The Well-Tuned Piano, but the potential for unlimited sustain in the cello and the softer edge of the instrumental sound better enable me to drink in the slowly explored tonal relationships. If you could imagine a two-hour alap performed by a very self-effacing sarangi player, you'll have some idea of the sound. Listening to it again just now, I found myself imagining arrangements for vielle a roue or bagpipe. Both would entail some modifications of the instruments to accommodate Young's just intonation and the changing drones, but with a suitably fit instrumentalist you could recreate the piece without having to pre-record the drones.

The FLAC files for this release were provided through the generosity of a dedicated AGP partisan. Both discs come with log and cue files (and don't you just love the idea of a cue file for a CD consisting of only one track?), but once again I have no scans of whatever liner notes may have accompanied the CD. I did find a low-res image of the cover.

For more information on this work, check out the Mela Foundation annoucement of two concert performances in France in 2004:

http://www.melafoundation.org/justcharles_2004.htm

Here is a blog review of one of the concerts:

http://ericedberg.blogspot.com/2005/12/just-charles-cello-in-romantic-chord.html

Professor Curtis' page at the UC San Diego web site is here:

http://musicweb.ucsd.edu/people/people.php ?cmd=fm_music_directory_detail &query_Full_Name=%20Charles%20Curtis &query_Active_Status=Faculty

For more information on La Monte Young, see the Wikipedia article on him, or visit his website at:

http://www.melafoundation.org/lmy.htm

This information is from discogs:

La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela - Just Charles & Cello In The Romantic Chord (2002-2003)
Label: Not On Label (La Monte Young)
Catalog#: none
Format: 2 x CDr, Album, Unofficial Release, Limited Edition
Country: Japan
Released: 2006
Genre: Classical
Style: Contemporary

Tracklist
1.1 Just Charles & Cello In The Romantic Chord 68:45
2.1 Just Charles & Cello In The Romantic Chord 49:20

Credits
Cello, Tape [Pre-recorded Cello Drones] - Charles Curtis
Other [Light Show] - Marian Zazeela
Written-By - La Monte Young

Notes
Subtitled 'in a setting of Abstract 1 from Quadrilateral Phase Angle Traversals (2003) in Imagic Light'.
Edition of 100.

NOTE: To the best of my knowledge, these recordings are not currently available commercially. If you know otherwise, please let me know ASAP, as I do not wish any artists to be deprived of the royalties that they so richly deserve.

(44/1) La Monte Young, 2007-08-04, Theatre of Eternal Music String Ensemble - The First Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China, Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, Bavaria

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La Monte Young

The Theatre Of Eternal Music String Ensemble

The First Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer
1-1 Part I - IV 34:18
2-1 Part V 43:32

Cello – Charles Curtis, Reynard Scott*, Yuri Christiansen
Composed By – La Monte Young
Double Bass – Christopher Williams (5)
Ensemble – The Theatre Of Eternal Music String Ensemble
Lighting Director – Marian Zazeela


Recorded (world premiere) Live In Polling, Bavaria at Kunst im Regenbogenstadl August 4, 2007.

"The First Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China (World Premiere)"

(39/1) La Monte Young, 2010, Catherine Christer Hennix : The Electric Harpsichord

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Catherine Christer Hennix

The Electric Harpsichord
2010

Die Schachtel Oct/2010

Deluxe edition, silver and gloss varnish print, innovative silver/black cardboard book+CD edition, 60 pp in English. Limited to 500 copies

Known to the very few, The Electric Harpsichord is possibly THE obscure masterpiece of the days of the early American minimalism. Recorded live in 1976 after many years of study under the guidance of Pandit Pran Nath and LaMonte Young, it has finally found the perfect home in the DieSchachtel ART catalogue: a lavishly produced and innovative silver/black cardboard book+CD edition, that gives the work the space and merit it deserves as a unique work of art, complete with two poems by LaMonte Young especially written for this edition, and an extensive essay by Henry Flynt.

An improvisation performed on Just Intonation tuned keyboards put through time lag accumulators similar to those used by Terry Riley, Hennix has produced one of the most remarkable pieces of music to emerge from the La Monte Young school of minimalism. A Swedish born composer, who studied in the tradition of the Xenakis and Stockhausen in the 1960s, Hennix met La Monte Young and Hindustani raga master Pandit Pran Nath at the Nuits du Fondation Maeght festival in 1970, and pursued studies with both men during the 1970s. While the use of the time lag in Riley's works such as "A Rainbow in Curved Air" results in an experience of blissful, focused, samadhi-like calm, Hennix's drone work has more in common with the chaotic fluxes of psychedelic experience or the mandalas of Tibetan Buddhism. This is a moving eternity, pulsating, shifting-something like a raga perhaps, insofar as a raga is a specific deity invoked into sound, shifting, fluttering inside the matrix of the drone. (Marcus Boom)

"In every media, the work of Christer Hennix shows extraordinary mastery of the interrelationship between Eastern and Western thought"
La Monte Young

"Hennixs The Electric Harpsichord is a gigantic piece, ma killer, a work which exists outside of style or genre. It is unbelievable. It creates blocks of sound that move min and out of each other to create the effects. It is a pure perfect piece of music that resonates and resounds and creates a universe that it is impossible by other means. In our primitive and unenlightened culture it becomes a work of transcendent power."
Glenn Branca

(http://www.dieschachtel.com/editions/dsA10.htm)


Hyperbole and silence wrap around Catherine Christer Hennixs music like the black and white of yin and yang. La Monte Young and Henry Flynt have praised her merger of music and mathematics for decades (well, initially his merger Christer Hennix was born in 1948 and took the name Catherine when she adopted the female gender in 1990). Hennix hasnt exactly promoted herself; while shes lived and occasionally performed in Europe since the early 90s, until now she hadnt made any records. Until the release of this volume, the only way to hear Hennix was in person, on certain Henry Flynt records (CTune, Purified By Fire, and Dharma Warriors) and via Ubuweb.

This release is an excerpt from a 1976 concert and is issued now in tribute to her late guru Pandit Pran Nath, the Kirana gharana singer who also taught Young, Terry Riley and Jon Hassell and died in 1996. Its swanky packaging signifies significance; the CD comes wrapped inside a 60-page booklet with two poems by Young, a lengthy historical-philosophical discussion of the work by Flynt, and an even longer (and decidedly over-my-head) mathematical discussion of the piece by Hennix. But the most meaningful part of the project is Hennixs rather extraordinary music.

Hennix had been involved with music since her youth, when she got lessons from the American jazz musicians who stayed in her parents Stockholm home, and shed begun working with primitive computer systems before she began associating with Young. After encountering Nath, she synthesized her analysis of tambura drones with the electronic sine tones that Young played in his house all day, every day. The outcome was a music mathematically calculated to induce altered states. The instrumental set-up on The Electric Harpsichord resembles Terry Rileys time-lag accumulator she plays an electric keyboard, in this case a Yamaha tuned in Just Intonation and fed into a tape delay system but the results are quite different. Where Riley generated overlapping streams of notes, Hennixs music rises and falls like ocean waves, with bright harmonics glinting atop a continuous sound like whitecaps. The harpsichords spindly key strokes accumulate into an undulating sonic mass that is neither harsh in the fashion of contemporary noisemakers nor bland. Instead, its rich in tones and overtones that seem to multiply in fractal cells that maintain their integrity as they increase in density. Put the CD on and putter about and it just sounds nice; give it your undivided attention and it sucks you right in and whips the alpha waves to the top of your brain pan like foam to the top of a cappuccino.

The effect is a slowing of experienced time, which may be a partial explanation for why it took Hennix so long to get this record out. But to stretch time is to stretch life, and what greater gift could you get from a five-inch shiny disc?

(http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/6008)


01-The Electric Harpsichord [25:25]

(16/1) La Monte Young, 2012, La Monte Young + The Theatre Of Eternal Music – Raag Bhairava

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La Monte Young

[Audio,Flac]#695016001

Raag Bhairava (Excerpt) New York City (1960)

1. Raag Bhairava (Excerpt 1) (00:19:54)
2. Raag Bhairava (Excerpt 2) (00:15:27)
3. Raag Bhairava (Excerpt 3) (00:03:10)
4. Raag Bhairava (Excerpt 4) (00:00:30)

(33/1) La Monte Young, 2012, Untitled (The Overday, 28 XII 63)

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La Monte Young

2012
Untitled

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01 Day Of The Holy Mountain (Part 2)
02 Oceans

(45/1) La Monte Young, 2014, The Theatre Of Eternal Music

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The Theatre Of Eternal Music

The Theatre Of Eternal Music

A1 12 I 64 The First Twelve; Sunday Morning Blues (Excerpt)
A2 19 X 63 Fifth Day Of The Hammer; Bb Dorian Blues (Excerpt)
B1 28 XI 63 The Overday (Excerpt)
B2 30 X 63 Day Of Hummingbird Night (Excerpt)


Guitar [Bowed Guitar] – Tony Conrad
Percussion [Hand Percussion] – Angus MacLise
Performer – Theatre Of Eternal Music, The
Soprano Saxophone [Sopranino Saxophone] – La Monte Young
Viola – John Cale
Voice [Voice Drone] – Marian Zazeela
Mastered By – SPGII

(23/1) La Monte Young, 2015-11-25, Compositions 1960 #7 (Dronefest #3), TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands

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La Monte Young - Machinefabriek - James Fulkerson
DroneFest / LeGuessWho? Festival, TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht (The Netherlands), November 22.23, 2015

01. La Monte Young (*1935) - Compositions 1960: #7 (19:16)
02. Machinefabriek + Fox String Quartet - Halfslaap III part 2 (10:22)
03. James Fulkerson (*1945) - Conscience of Sound (28:10)

Bas Wiegers - violin
Koen Kaptijn - trombone
Nora Mulder - piano
Machinefabriek [Rutger Zuydervelt] - electronics
Fox String Quartet

MPEG1.0 Layer 3 - 256kbps - 44kHz [Concertzender webcast] > VLC player > mp3DirectCut
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http://www.concertzender.nl/programma/concertzender-live-5239/

Wednesday 25 November 2015
22:00 - 23:00 Concertzender Live

DroneFest #3:

Recordings from Composition 1960 by La Monte Young, Halfslaap III part 2 from Machinefabriek + Fox String Quartet and Conscience of Sound by James Fulkerson.

1. La Monte Young. Composition 1960. 19:15.
2. Machinefabriek + Fox String Quartet. Halfslaap III part 2. 10:37.
3. James Fulkerson. Conscience of Sound. 30:46.

Recorded on 22/23 November 2015 in Tivoli/Vredenburg by Wijnand de Groot.
During the 24-Hour Dronefest violinist Bas Wiegers, trombonist Koen Kaptijn and pianist Nora Mulder played pieces by James Fulkerson and La Monte Young.
In Conscience of Sound by Fulkerson the music moves imperceptibly from one sound to another. The smallest scale is stretched to insane proportions and fills the space with nothing but sound.
La Monte Young is the drone composer par excellence. During Le Guess Who? sounds his Composition 1960. It is the longest composition with the least notes. There are two, and the only clue is to be held for a long time. "
Rutger Zuydervelt, his artist name is Machinefabriek, wrote a new composition for string quartet and electronics, commissioned by Gaudeamus. Zuydervelt has been experimenting lately with more permanent structures, from which his work Halfslaap II (for violin and electronics) has emerged. Gaudeamus challenges Zuydervelt to taking it a step further. Zuydervelt recreated Halfslaap II into a version for string quartet and electronics: Halfslaap III. Fox String Quartet, led by cellist Martin Fox, does not work with a fixed score, but can apply nuances and dynamics in the piece. Musicians are thus just as much the composer as Zuydervelt himself.

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Producer: Hessel Veldman

(24/1) La Monte Young, 2015-11-28, The Tortoise, His Dream And Journeys, Konzerthaus, Dortmund, Germany

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Katia & Mariella Labèque - Minimalist Dreamhouse
Konzerthaus, Dortmund (Germany)
November 28, 2015

Katia Labèque - piano
Marielle Labèque - piano
David Chalmin - guitar, vocals
Alexandre Maillard - bass
Raphaël Séguinier - percussion

CD1
01. Erik Satie (1866-1925) - Prelude du Premier Acte - La Vocation from "Le fil des etoiles" (1891) (4:55)
02. John Cage (1912-1992) - Experiences No. 1 (1945) for two pianos (2:24)
03. Arvo Pärt (*1935) - Hymn to a Great City (1984/2004) for two pianos (3:21)
Philip Glass (*1937) - Four Movements for two pianos (2008)
04. I (5:53)
05. II (4:59)
06. III (6:26)
07. IV (5:07)
08. Terry Riley (*1935) - In C (1964) (13:26)

CD2
09. Aphex Twin (*1971) - Avril 14th (2001) for piano four hands 2 (1:46)
10. Brian Eno (*1948) - In Dark Trees (1975) for piano and tape (3:21)
11. Radiohead - Pyramid Song (2001) for piano and voice (5:17)
12. Raphaël Séguinier (*1979) - Free to X (2011) for piano and tape (7:36)
13. Sonic Youth - Free City Rhymes (2000) (7:06)
14. David Chalmin (*1980) - Gameland (2011) (6:17)
Howard Skempton (*1947) - Images (1989) (excerpts)
15. Prelude (1:18)
16. Interlude 4 (1:23)
17. Prelude 5 (2:47)
18. Interlude 5 (0:47)
19. Prelude 7 (2:11)
20. Postlude (1:51)
XX. Henry Flynt (*1940) - Work such that no one knows what's going on (1961) [not broadcasted]
XX. James Tenney (1934-2006) - Postal Piece No. 10: Having never written a Note for Percussion (1971) [not broadcasted]
21. La Monte Young (*1935) - The Tortoise, His Dream and Journeys (1964) (15:05)

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http://www.auditorium-lyon.com/ Programmation-14-15/Happy-days/ Orchestres-en-fete/Minimalist-Dream-House

Minimalist Dream House

interprètes
Katia & Marielle Labèque, piano
David Chalmin, guitare électrique
Raphaël Séguinier, percussion
Alexandre Maillard, guitare basse

résumé
Pour célébrer les cinquante ans de la musique minimaliste, Katia et Marielle Labèque ont élaboré le projet Minimalist Dream House, créé à Paris en février 2013 et enregistré dans la foulée. C’est même plus d’un siècle d’histoire qui est retracé, puisque les interprètes vont traquer les racines de ce courant à la fin du xixe siècle, dans la musique d’Érik Satie – et même au xvii e, puisque Nicola Tescari fait reposer sa composition Suonar rimembrando (2011) sur une chaconne du compositeur et organiste italien Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665). Les précurseurs tels John Cage, Terry Riley ou Philip Glass sont mis à l’honneur aussi bien que les générations suivantes, avec des incursions dans le monde du rock (Brian Eno, Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Suicide). Le projet est dédié à la mémoire de William Duckworth, qui donna en 1978 le coup d’envoi du post-minimalisme avec son cycle Time Curve Preludes, dont les soeurs Labèque joueront ici des extraits. Décédé en 2012, il joua un rôle clef dans la conception de ce programme.

Programme
01 Érik Satie Prélude du Ier acte, «La Vocation», extrait du Fils des étoiles
02 John Cage Experiences (extrait : n° 1) — 4 min 30
03 Arvo Pärt Hymn to a Great City — 4 min
-- William Duckworth Time Curve Preludes nos 17 et 1 — 5 min 30
Philip Glass Four Movements — 24 min
04 I
05 II
06 III
07 IV
08 Terry Riley In C
09 Aphex Twin Nanou 2 et April 14th
10 Brian Eno In Dark Trees
11 Radiohead Pyramid Song
12 Raphaël Séguinier Free to X
-- Glenn Branca Lesson No. 1 — 8 min
13 Sonic Youth Free City Rhymes
-- Suicide Ghost Rider
14 David Chalmin Gameland
-- Laurie Anderson O Superman — 10 min
Howard Skempton
15 Prélude,
16 Interlude 4,
17 Prélude 5,
18 Interlude 5
19 et Prélude 7, extraits des Images pour piano — 7 min 30
20 Howard Skempton Postlude — 2 min
-- Henry Flynt Worksuchthat no one knowswhat'sgoing on (One just has to guesswhetherthisworkexists and if itdoeswhatitislike)
-- James Tenney Postal Piece No 10: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion — 7 min
-- Philip Glass One plus One — 3 min
21 La Monte Young The Tortoise, His Dream and Journeys — 20 min

(409/1) La Monte Young, 2016-05-20, Noël Akchoté, La Monte Young – Compositions 1960 ( Varians)

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Noel Akchote, La Monte Young

Compositions 1960

Label: Noel Akchote Downloads LMY-2

Pays: France
Sortie: 20 mai 2016

1 Build A Fire - Composition No 2 0:40
2 Composition No 3 0:16
3 Composition No 4 0:34
4 Composition No 5 0:26
5 Composition No 6 0:28
6 Composition No 7 0:25
7 Composition No 9 7:30
8 To Bob Morris, Composition No 10 0:40
9 Composition No 13 0:45
10 Composition No 15 0:37
11 Piano Piece For David Tudor No 1 0:29
12 Piano Piece For David Tudor No 2 0:20
13 Piano Piece For David Tudor No 3 0:30
14 Piano Piece For Terry Riley 0:35

(411/1) La Monte Young, 2016-05-20, Noël Akchoté, La Monte Young – The Well-Tuned Piano (Arranged For Guitar)

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Noel Akchote, La Monte Young

The Well-Tuned Piano (Arranged For Guitar)

Label: Noel Akchote Downloads LMY-1

Pays: France
Sortie: 20 mai 2016

1 The Well-Tuned Piano 3:27
2 Keyboard Study No 2 1:24

(584/1) La Monte Young, 2018, Infinite Music, A Tribute To La Monte Young

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Infinite Music - A Tribute to La Monte Young

Label: Fire Records – FIRELP527
Format:Vinyl, 12", Live, Magenta Vinyl
Country: UK
Released: Jun 15, 2018

A1 Infinite Music
A2 Magenta
B1 Surge Machine

Infinite Music - A Tribute to La Monte Young is a collaboration between Sonic Boom, Zombie Zombie’s Etienne Jaumet and Celine Wadier, a master of Indian Dhrupad singing and tanpura.
Recorded live at Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon in September 2017. The performance is released on magenta vinyl, a nod to Young and his wife Mariane Zazeela’s famous light and sound installation at the Dreamhouse, New York.

(41/1) La Monte Young, 2020, Draw A Straight Line And Follow It

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La Monte Young

Draw A Straight Line And Follow It

1-1 Composition 1960 #7
1-2 The Lower Map Of The Eleven’s Division In The Romantic Symmetry
1-3 Piano Piece For David Tudor #3
1-4 The Fire Is A Mirror

2-1 For Brass
2-2 Arabic Numeral (Any Integer) To H.F.
2-3 2 Sounds

3-1 Poem For Chairs, Tables, Benches, Etc.
3-2 Day Of The Antler (The Obsidian Ocelot)
3-3 Drift Study
3-4 Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery

4-1 Bb Dorian Blues
4-2 Early Tuesday Morning Blues
4-3 The Tortoise Droning Selected Pitches From The Holy Numbers For The Two Black Tigers, The Green Tiger And The Hermit

5-1 Raga Bhairava
5-2 The Tamburas Of Pandit Pran Nath

6-1 Trio For Strings

7-1 The Well-Tuned Piano (Excerpt)

(369/1) La Monte Young, 2020, Draw A Straight Line And Follow It II

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La Monte Young

Draw A Straight Line And Follow It II

6 x CDr, Compilation, Unofficial Release
Pays: Japan

1-1 Death Chant
1-2 For Guitar
1-3 Volgadelta 23
1-4 The Tortoise, His Dreams And Journeys
1-5 The Tortoise, His Dreams And Journeys
2-1 For Brass I
2-2 For Brass II
3-1 Young's Dorian Blues In G
4-1 Raga Shudh Sarang
4-2 Raga Kut Todi
5-1 Just Charles And Cello In The Romantic Chord In A Setting Of Abstract #1 From Quadrilateral Phase Angle Traversals With Dream Light
6-1 Just Charles And Cello In The Romantic Chord In A Setting Of Abstract #1 From Quadrilateral Phase Angle Traversals With Dream Light

(370/1) La Monte Young, 2020, Draw A Straight Line And Follow It III

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La Monte Young

Draw A Straight Line And Follow It III

Label: Otherside Recordings – none

Format:6 x CDr, Compilation, Limited Edition, Unofficial Release
Pays: Japan

1-1 Raga Dabari
1-2 Tonecycle Base 30 Hz 2:3:7
1-3 Composition 1960 #7
2-1 The Celebration Of The Tortoise
2-2 Oceans
3-1 42 For Henry Flint
3-2 566 For Henry Flint
3-3 Perspectives II : For La Monte Young
3-4 Ludlow Blues For Clarinet, Saxophone, Trombone & Tape
4-1 Day Of The Holy Mountain I
5-1 Day Of The Holy Mountain II A
5-2 Day Of The Holy Mountain II B
6-1 23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM, The Volga Delta [22 RPM]
6-2 Densities II For Clarinet, Saxophone, Marimba & Violin

(371/1) La Monte Young, 2020, Draw A Straight Line And Follow It IV

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La Monte Young

Draw A Straight Line & Follow It IV

Format: 5 x CDr DVDr, DVD-Video, NTSC
Pays: Japan

The Black Album
1-1 31 VII 69 10:26-10:49 PM
2-2 23 VIII 63 2:50:45-3:11 AM, The Volga Delta
Dream House 78'17"
2-1 13 I 73 5:35-6:14:03 PM NYC
2-2 Drift Study 14 VII 73 9:27:27-10:06:41 PM NYC
La Monte Young
3-1 12 I 64 Sunday Morning Blues
3-2 Bb Dorian Blues Saturday 19th November 1963 - 5th Day Of The Hammer
3-3 The Well Tuned Piano 8 VI 64 - Day Of Gammedeon
4-1 The Well Tuned Piano 8 VI 64 - Day Of Gammedeon
4-2 19 X 71 6:52-7:42 NYC - From Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornemental Light Years Tracery
The Theatre Of Eternal Music
5-1 Bb Dorian Blues
5-2 Pre-Tortoise Dream Music
5-3 The Tortoise, His Dreams & Journeys
The Well-Tuned Piano In The Magenta Lights
DVDr The Well-Tuned Piano In The Magenta Lights

(410/1) La Monte Young, 2021, Trio For Strings Original Full Length Just Intonation Version

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La Monte Young

Trio For Strings

Label: Dia Art Foundation – DIA21TFS
4 x Vinyle, LP, Stereo, Auto-Coupled
US / 2021
Genre: Classical

Trio For Strings Original Full Length Just Intonation Version (1958-1984-1998-2001-2005-2015) 15 IX 05 ca. 9:21:00 PM - 15 IX 06 ca. 12:23:00 AM NYC

A Side 1 Of 8 22:34
B Side 2 Of 8 16:00
C Side 3 Of 8 24:14
D Side 4 Of 8 25:54
E Side 5 Of 8 22:37
F Side 7 Of 8 25:52
G Side 6 Of 8 23:24
H Side 8 Of 8 21:25

(585/1) La Monte Young, 2023, Stolen Symphony Fluxus & Neofluxus, Part 1

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Stolen Symphony: Fluxus & Neofluxus, Part 1 (Sub Rosa SR539)

Label: Sub Rosa SR539

Released: 2023

1 La Monte Young– Composition 1960 #15 To Richard Huelsenbeck
2 Milan Knížák– Dkh Quartet (edit) (1973)
3 Henning Christiansen– Wolfsflöte
4 Guiseppe Chiari– Metodo Teorico E Pratico
5 Milan Knížák– White Process
6 Dick Higgins– Emmett William's Ear
7 Milan Knížák– A Chromatic Scale In Countermovement
8 Henning Christiansen– Sturmsax
9 Yoshi Wada– Lip Vibratot
10 Terry Riley– Shoganigidi #1
11 Yasunao Tone– Clapping Piece
12 Mieko Shiomi– Direction Music For A Pianist
13 Dieter Schnebel– An-satze
14 La Monte Young– Composition 1960 #7
15 Eric Andersen– It Isn't Bad
16 Eric Andersen– Opus 1961
17 Bengt Af Klintberg– Trad #1
18 Mieko Shiomi– Imaginary Garden #3
19 Milan Knížák– Material Events
20 Guiseppe Chiari– Geste Sui Piano
21 Öyvind Fahlström– Morgan
22 Philip Corner– A Really Lovely Piece Made . .
23 Terry Riley– Ear Piece
24 Philip Corner– Small Pieces Of A Fluxus Reality
25 Ben Patterson– Paper Piece
26 Philip Corner– Toy Piano
27 Sten Hanson– A Living Man
28 Opening Performance Orchestra– Stolen Symphony
29 Milan Knížák– BROKEN REBROKEN
0 John Cage– 0' 0"


All in all, there are more than 50 pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments.
This Fluxus edition features (in alphabetical order): Eric Andersen, George Brecht, Ay-O, John Cage, Giancarlo Cardini, Giuseppe Chiari, Henning Christiansen, Philip Corner, Öyvind Fahlström, Ken Friedman, Sten Hanson, Geoffrey Hendricks, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Joe Jones, Bengt af Klintberg, Milan Knizak, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, George Maciunas, Sara Miyamoto, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono, Opening Performance Orchestra, Benjamin Patterson, Josef Anton Riedl, Terry Riley, Takako Saito, Tomas Schmit, Dieter Schnebel, Mieko Shiomi, Yasunao Tone, Ben Vautier, Yoshi Wada and La Monte Young.
credits
released May 12, 2023

The musicians and performers:
Anna Clementi, Agnese Toniutti, Deborah Walker, Werner Durand, Luciano Chessa, Miroslav Beinhauer, Petr Bakla, Nicolas Horvath, Petr Ferenc and Premysl Ondra have played, performed and declaimed the Fluxus pieces, Arditti Quartet and S.E.M. Ensemble provided one piece from their archives.
Milan Knízák, Petr Rezek, Petr Kotík, Olaf Hanel, Eric Andersen, Per Brunskog, Peter van der Meijden, Pavlína Morganová, Natasha Lushetich, Joseph Nechvatal, Natilee Harren, Martin Patrick, Diedrich Diederichsen, Christopher M. Reeves and Hubertus von Amelunxen have written Fluxus-themed texts.
Archivio Conz in Berlin provided access to their extensive Fluxus archives and Edizioni Conz provided coproduction. Ursula and René Block made possible the realisation of John Cage's historical composition Rozart Mix from the Edition Block archive.
The photographic material comes from Marie Knízáková and Milan Knízák's private archive, the German photographer Wolfgang Träger, Archivio Conz's Fluxus archive and Opening Performance Orchestra's
digital archive.
The cover themes are paintings by Milan Knízák, while
the graphic design is the work of Jaroslav Buzek.
The whole release is produced by re-set production.

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