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	La Monte Young - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric and often hard-to-find works have been included among the most important post World War II avant-garde or experimental music.
		Young was born to a Mormon family in Bern, Idaho.
		Young's early works mainly use the twelve tone technique of Arnold Schoenberg (with whom Young studied at Los Angeles), although several of these early pieces were destroyed by the composer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_Monte_Young (1004 words)

	Avantgarde Music. LaMonte Young: biography, discography, reviews, links
		La Monte Young, a pupil of John Cage and one of the founders of the Fluxus movement, is the real "inventor" of minimalism.
		La Monte Young regards music as an external being with an independent existence, and thus is critical of a Western culture he sees making music conform to human existence in such a way as to be unnatural and counter to the essence of music.
		La prima "dream house" era una soffitta di New York in cui si radunavano Young, la moglie Marian Zazeela e The Theatre Of Eternal Music, un complesso in cui militavano, fra gli altri, il violinista Tony Conrad, il violista John Cale, il trombettista Jon Hassell, il violista David Rosenboom e l'organista Terry Riley.
	www.scaruffi.com /oldavant/young.html (2819 words)

	A La Monte Young Web Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		La Monte Young is one of the most influential underground composers of the 20th century.
		Young's relentless saxophone solos of the early '60s (he once beat Eric Dolphy for a sax chair) roared with the energy of rock and the pristine tuning of Indian ragas.
		Young is also legendary for his sine-tone installations, assemblages of droning overtones in complex arrays of prime numbers that now explore pitch space up to the 2304th harmonic.
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	La Monte Young
		Raised a Mormon, Young claims that the first sound he can remember hearing was wind whistling through the Idaho log cabin he was born in, and that during childhood he became fascinated by the humming of step-down power transformers and telephone poles (sounds which would clearly influence him later in life).
		Young caught on quickly to the contemporary academic music of the time, showing special interest in the 12-tone music of Anton Webern.
		In 1959 Young went to Darmstadt to study for the summer with Karlheinz Stockhausen; David Tudor was also in attendance, and through him Young was exposed to the philosophy and music of John Cage.
	www.nndb.com /people/229/000048085 (659 words)

	La Monte Young: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Young was born in Bern, Idaho in 1935, beginning his studies of the alto saxophone at age seven.
		At the same time, Young became obsessed with notions of tuning, specifically that of Just Intonation, a system in which all of the intervals can be represented by ratios of whole numbers, with a clear preference for the smallest numbers compatible with a given musical purpose.
		Still, throughout his career Young remained a largely shadowy figure, often discussed (his connection to the nascent Velvet Underground [+] the most common point of reference) but seldom heard; his influence on the rise of ambient music and drone-rock is undeniable, yet almost subliminal.
	music.com /person/la_monte_young/1 (623 words)

	Kirana West: La Monte Young Bio
		Young and Zazeela helped bring renowned master vocalist Pandit Pran Nath to the U.S. in 1970 and became his first Western disciples, studying with him for twenty-six years in the traditional gurukula manner of living with and serving the guru.
		In June 2002, Young was conferred the title of Khan Sahib by Ustad Hafizullah Khan Sahib, the Khalifa of the Kirana Gharana and son of Pandit Pran Nath’s teacher, Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan Sahib.
		For La Beauté, the celebration of the Year 2000, the French government invited Young and Zazeela to create a four-month, large-scale Dream House installation featuring the continuous DVD projection of the 1987 six-hour 24-minute performance of their collaborative masterwork, The Well-Tuned Piano in The Magenta Lights, set in a site-specific light environment created by Zazeela.
	kiranawest.com /lamontepage.htm (1546 words)

	cortical foundation
		La Monte Young has pioneered the concept of extended time durations in contemporary music for over 35 years.
		Young has since presented Dream House sound environments at Espace Donguy, Paris (1990); Ruine der Knste, Berlin (1992); Pompidou Center, Paris (1994-95); and the MELA Foundation Dream House: Seven Years of Sound and Light, which opened in New York in 1993 and will continue through the year 2000.
		The 1974 Rome live world premiere of Young's magnum opus The Well-Tuned Piano (1964-73-81-present), was celebrated by a commission for him to sign the Bsendorfer piano which remains permanently in the special tuning.
	www.cortical.org /pink/2.21.html (736 words)

	upcoming events
		La Monte Young has pointed out, and through his music probably demonstrated, that the universe can be comprehended as vibration; that is, as a succession of ongoing cycles.
		In Butterfly for La Monte Young a 28:27 interval, tuned in sine waves and emanating from one of two speakers, is subjected to a fractional interference signal.
		La Monte's work, over nearly fifty years, has taught us to experience time and space in an unprecedented sharpness of detail.
	diapasongallery.org /upcoming.events.html (1438 words)

	ALEX CARPENTER - LA MONTE YOUNG: TOWARDS ABSOLUTE MUSIC
		At this time, Young had already commenced a graduate degree in composition at the University of California, Berkeley, and was particularly interested in the music of John Cage.
		Although Young does not refer to Plato or openly identify with Platonic philosophy in any of his writings or interviews, one may find a striking similarity between the principles that underlie his musical activity and those that constitute the very basis of Platonism.
		Young's work with drones during this period made his adoption of just intonation inevitable, as listening to long tones provides "a situation where you can begin to concentrate on...
	users.chariot.net.au /~vanished/lmytam.html (2373 words)

	Encyclopedia: La Monte Young (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In music, a drone is a harmonic or monophonic effect or accompaniment where a note or chord is continuously sounded throughout much or all of a piece, sustained or repeated, and most often establishing a tonality upon which the rest of the piece is built.
		The term bare fifth is a musical one, referring to a chord comprising of two notes (and any duplications in different octaves) one fifth apart.
		In the music theory of European classical music serialism is a set of methods for composing and analyzing works of music based on structuring those works around the parameterization of parts of music: that is, ordering pitch, dynamics, instrumentation, rhythm, and on occasion other elements into a row or series...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/La-Monte-Young (2143 words)

	Following a Straight Line
		Young was greatly impressed by the precision of his tuning (in order to produce and sustain a mood, it is necessary to repeat each pitch at exactly the same frequency).
		La Monte later eliminated this sound from the work and codified it as 2 sounds because he thought the stirred bucket of triangles sounded too commonplace.
		La Monte has made an archival recording of the forearm cluster on piano version and has performed it publicly with drumstick on gong (gong flat on the floor, not suspended)' [Email, 17 June 2004].
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	La Monte Young -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Young was born to a (The ancient prophet whose writings were revealed to Joseph Smith who founded the Mormon Church) Mormon family in Bern, Idaho.
		Young's early works mainly use the (Click link for more info and facts about twelve tone technique) twelve tone technique of (United States composer and musical theorist (born in Austria) who developed atonal composition (1874-1951)) Arnold Schoenberg (with whom Young studied at Los Angeles), although several of these early pieces were destroyed by the composer.
		In 1962 Young wrote his first drone based piece in (Click link for more info and facts about just intonation) just intonation, The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer, also his first piece to use electronics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/La/La_Monte_Young.htm (884 words)

	Young, La Monte Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		La Monte Young - Brief sketch of the composer's career with explanation of the tuning of his "Well-Tuned Piano" and course in "Just Intonation."
		La Monte Young - Biography and analysis of his work from Other Minds.
		Young, La Monte "The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." (Viktor E. Frankl) Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_Y_Young,_La_Monte.html (1605 words)

	Interview with Tony Conrad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		La Monte Young's early works, you know, were involved with the neo-Dada movement in New York that spawned Fluxus, conceptual art, and happenings.
		Young's personal peccadillo has set up a historiographic paradox; the cultural influence of this music is more legible than the music itself is audible.
		Young himself now ignorantly insists on the artistic demolition of this body of work by claiming that it is a series of "compositions" (by him).
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		La Monte Young (born October 14 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric but influential (if hard to find) works have been classified by some as avant garde or experimental.
		Young's early works mainly use the twelve tone technique of Arnold Schoenberg (who Young at sudied with at Los Angeles), although several of these early pieces were destroyed by their composer.
		One of his better known early pieces, the String Trio of 1958, while considered very extreme at the time of its composition, can now be seen as one of Young's more conventional works.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/l/la/la_monte_young.html (790 words)

	La Monte Young
		La Monte Young (born Bern, Idaho, 1935) has pioneered the concept of extended time durations in contemporary music for over 35 years.
		Early involved in jazz, during the 1950s La Monte Young was a performer in Los Angeles of jazz saxophone, playing with Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Billy Higgins, and Don Cherry, among others.
		In 1970, along with Terry Riley and Marian Zazeela, La Monte Young began his studies with the north Indian vocal master Pandit Pran Nath.
	www.otherminds.org /shtml/Young.shtml (301 words)

	* Dusted Features [ Heart of Sound and Light: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's The Well-Tuned Piano In The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's The Well-Tuned Piano In The Magenta Lights.
		Composer La Monte Young has devoted his creative life to a continuing exploration of the intersections of spirit, sound, and empirical musical tinkering.
		La Monte Young comes from the post-Cage/Cowell generation of American composers who became known as minimalists, working, starting in the 1950s and 1960s, at the boundaries of “art music,” jazz, and rock amplification.
	www.dustedmagazine.com /features/271 (990 words)

	American Mavericks: An interview with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela
		YOUNG: My Aunt Norma was a rodeo singer, and she started to teach me to sing cowboy songs and play guitar when I was 2 years old.
		While I was in L.A. City College I had met the drummer Billy Higgins, who became my drummer while I was in L.A., and he is of course, one of the greatest drummers of all time.
		YOUNG: One of the differences between my 1960 compositions and the work of Fluxus artists was the extreme conceptual nature of my compositions.
	musicmavericks.publicradio.org /features/interview_young.html (13205 words)

	La Monte Young'sThe Well-Tuned Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		La Monte Young began work on his magnum opus, The Well-Tuned Piano, in 1964.
		In 1991, I told La Monte that I had figured out the tuning and wanted to publish an analysis of the work.
		Young's tuning can be arranged in a grid in which the perfect fifths (3/2 ratios) run in one direction (here: upwards), and the pure minor sevenths (7/4 ratios) in another (left to right):
	www.russwill.com /library/music/musictheory/monteyoung/lamonteyoung.htm (235 words)

	La Monte Young : LaMonte Young
		La Monte Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer whose eccentric works have been classified by some as avant garde or experimental.
		These interests later led to him studying with Pandit Pran Nath[?] from 1970 (his fellow students were his wife Marian Zazeela and the composer Terry Riley).
		The Well Tuned Piano, a series of pieces for a piano tuned in just intonation, likewise explores Young's interest in drones, as does The Tortoise, his Dreams and Journeys, a piece which has been given a number of realisations over the years.
	www.termsdefined.net /la/lamonte-young.html (523 words)

	La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela: the halana interview
		The drone constants are very supportive and allow you to use them as positioning points of reference, to remain aloft, so to speak, in this special state of consciousness and awareness.
		Photograph: La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, The Forever Bad Blues Band Tour, "Pop Goes Art, Andy Warhol and the Velvet Underground Exhibition," Augsburg, Germany, August 1992.
		From the liner notes to La Monte Young, The Forever Bad Blues Bad, Just Stompin', Live at the Kitchen.
	www.halana.com /lymz.html (795 words)

	John Cale, Tony Conrad, Angus MacLise, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela: Inside the Dream Syndicate, Volume I: Day of ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		La Monte Young owns the original performance and rehearsal recordings of the Dream Syndicate and refuses their release, much to the frustration of Cale and Conrad.
		This dispute, along with Young's intractable perfectionism, has prevented the world for the past 35 years from hearing just what those five headcases were up to.
		La Monte Young is pissed, noting imperfections in the mix, length, etc. But any way you cut it, avant-garde indie Table of the Elements has balls, and this release is ideal.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/cale_john/day-of-niagara.shtml (524 words)

	MELA: La Monte Young - Second Dream press
		Young's genius is in the way he lets the notes relate, giving them enough duration, not just to assert themselves, but to create a vast, timeless void.
		Before there was minimalism there was La Monte Young, an uncompromising composer who was known for 1) an inclination for creating complete environments for his music, sometimes occupying a whole house for his concerts, and 2) creating slowly evolving works of enormous length.
		At the end, the long and languid reverie by La Monte Young called The Four Dreams of China used eight trumpet players, four in each of the church's two side galleries.
	melafoundation.org /quote2nd.htm (1107 words)

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