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Other articles where La Monte Young is discussed: the Velvet Underground: …in New York City by La Monte Young. In 1965, while working as Brill Building-style staff songwriter for Pickwick Music, Reed formed a group, the Primitives (including Cale), for live performances of a single he had recorded called “The Ostrich.” He also had written songs, such as “Heroin” and “Venus…
Jun 17, 2021 · Just Stompin' by La Monte Young, The Forever Bad Blues Band, released 17 June 2021 1. Young’s Dorian Blues in G (B♭= 60 Hz), 1 of 2 2. Young’s Dorian Blues in G (B♭= 60 Hz), 2 of 2 The music of The Forever Bad Blues Band represents Young's latest contribution to the ongoing dialogue with his plugged-in rock and roll progeny.
Jul 2, 2015 · La Monte Young is running out of time. He’s worked in New York for 55 years, but Young traces the origins of his music to sounds he heard as a child in Bern, Idaho, especially the high whistle ...
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La Monte Young is an American musician, artist and composer who played a central role in postwar avant-garde music. He is considered to be one of the first American minimalist composers. Young was heavily influenced by Indian music and Japanese Gagaku music.
La Monte Young grew up in a poor, rural setting. His father was a sheep-herder, and the family lived in a log cabin in a Mormon hamlet in Bear Lake County, Idaho. As a child, Young learned cowboy songs and the basics of the guitar from his aunt, and, at the age of seven, basic music theory and alto saxophone from his father and great uncle, the latter of which was the leader of a brass band.
La Monte Young. New York, New York. La Monte Young pioneered the concept of extended time durations in 1957 and for over 60 years contributed extensively to the development of just intonation and rational number based tuning systems in his performance works; his work had a wide-ranging influence on contemporary music, art, and philosophy, including Minimalism, Fluxus, performance art, and Conceptual art.
