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La Monte Young

Profile:Born in a log cabin in Utah, La Monte went to high school in Los Angeles. During this time he played saxophone in a group with Billy Higgins, Dennis Budimir and Don Cherry. He also played with Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman, Terry Jennings, Don Friedman and Tiger Echols. To continue his education, he relocated to Berkeley, where he met life long friend and collaborator Terry Riley. It was also in the Bay Area where he first encountered the work of Angus MacLise, whose poetry he discovered at the City Light book shop. From here Young moved to New York City, where he has lived ever since. Upon his arrival in New York, he curated a series of concerts at Yoko Ono's loft and quickly became a legend in town. He also studied electronic music with Richard Maxfield and became associated with many of the Fluxus artists, who took to performing his pieces in their concerts. With Jackson Mac Low, he published An Anthology, which collected printed works by many of the radical artists of that time. Most importantly, La Monte started assembling an ensemble to play his music. Early members of his group include Billy Name and Simone Forti. The real breakthrough was when Young met Marian Zazeela who was to become his lifelong collaborator and partner. These two were joined by the young English student John Cale, mathematician Tony Conrad, and percussionist and poet Angus MacLise. This core group became known at the Theater of Eternal Music and performed many groundbreaking concerts. This line up was not to last however, and over the decades many other musicians have come and gone in La Monte's ensemble including Dennis Johnson, Terry Riley, Jon Gibson (2), David Rosenboom, Jon Hassell, and Lee Konitz. Going back to the late 1950's and extending to the present day, La Monte has focused his attention on pieces of extended duration, with minimal, often microtonal, change. For this reason, he is known as one of the father's of the minimal music "movement", though remains unique from his followers. In addition to this, Young and Zazeela were disciples of Pandit Pran Nath, and devoted a considerable amount of effort to the perservation and continuance of the Kirana style of Indian classic music.
URLs:http://www.melafoundation.org/
In Groups:Theatre Of Eternal Music
Name Variations: All | La Monte Young | LaMonte Young
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The Black Record (LP)   Edition X 1969
Aspen Magazine No. 8 Fall-Winter (Flexi, 8")   Roaring Fork Press 1970
Dream House 78'17" (LP)   Shandar 1974
The Well-Tuned Piano 81 X 25 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 PM NYC ◄ (2 versions)   Gramavision 1987
Drift Study 4:37:40-5:09:50 PM 5 VIII 68 NYC (Cass, RE, C65)   The Letter Edged In Black Press Inc. 1988
The Second Dream Of The High Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China (CD)   Gramavision 1991
Just Stompin' (Live At The Kitchen) (2xCD)   Gramavision 1993
Inside The Dream Syndicate Volume I: Day Of Niagara (1965) (Album) ◄ (3 versions)   Table Of The Elements 2000
The Well-Tuned Piano In The Magenta Lights (DVD-V, Lim)   Just Dreams 2000
Production:
Ragas Of Morning & Night ◄ (2 versions)   Gramavision 1986
Midnight (Album) ◄ (2 versions) 21 VIII 76 NYC Raga Ma... Just Dreams 2002
Appears On:
Ragas ◄ (2 versions)   Shandar 1971
FluxTellus (Cass) "89 VI 8 C. 1:42-1:52 ... Tellus 1990
Requiem For George Maciunas (Cass, C31)   Not On Label 1990
Cage/Cunningham (VHS, NTSC)   Kultur 1991
In Good Company (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Terry's G Dorian Blues Point Music 1992
Music For The Gift (CD) Concerto For Two Piani... Cortical Foundation 2000
Midnight (Album) ◄ (2 versions) 21 VIII 76 NYC Raga Ma... Just Dreams 2002
Raga Cycle (CD, Album, Dig)   Sri Moonshine Music 2006
Tracks Appear On:
Spartito Preso (LP) Composition 1960 No. 7 Edipan 1981
Fluxus Anthology (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Dream House (Excerpt) Recorthings & Zona Archives ... 1989
FluxTellus (Cass) "89 VI 8 C. 1:42-1:52 ... Tellus 1990
U.S.A. (CD) A Wisp, A Gnarl, A Lea... Montaigne 1993
OHM: The Early Gurus Of Electronic Music (Comp, Album) ◄ (2 versions) Excerpt "31|69 C. 12:1... Ellipsis Arts 2000
USA (CD) A Wisp, A Gnarl, A Lea... Montaigne 2001
Experimentelles Musiktheater : Fluxus-Happening-Performance (CD) 566 For Henry Flynt RCA Red Seal 2004
The Marcia Blaine School For Girls - School Disco Volume 2 (CDr, Mixed) The Tortoise, His Drea... Metal-On-Metal 2004
Unofficial Releases:
Sunday AM Blues / Bb Dorian Blues / The Well Tuned Piano / Map Of 49's Dream (2xLP)   RRRip 1992
The Theatre Of Eternal Music (LP, Ltd) The Tortoise, His Drea... Not On Label (La Monte Young) 1995
Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung Vol. 1 (2xCDr)   Not On Label (La Monte Young) 2003
Der Zweck Dieser Serie Is Nicht Unterhaltung Vol. 2 (2xCDr)   Not On Label (La Monte Young) 2003
Drift Study (Vinyl, cle)   Kikusui 2005
Just Charles & Cello In The Romantic Chord (2002-2003) (2xCDr, Album, Ltd)   Not On Label (La Monte Young) 2006
Day Of The Holy Mountain 1964 (2xCDr, Ltd)   Not On Label (La Monte Young) 2008
The Celebration Of The Tortoise (CDr, Ltd)   Not On Label (La Monte Young) 2008
1960, 1963 (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
I (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
II (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
III (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
IV (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
IX (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
V (Cass, C90) Day Of Gammedeon; The ... Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
VI (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
VII (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
VIII (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
X (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
XI (Cass, C90)   Velvet Underground Appreciation Society  
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