la monte young

why not both

A reissue campaign could raise decent money. I sold my Well-Tuned Piano box for $600 back in 2011. There’s so much that isn’t available.

xp lol sorry, yes both

How does that place not have a major grant by this point? I donated but it feels like some serious mismanagement that they aren't more stable.

https://www.discogs.com/La-Monte-Young-Draw-A-Straight-Line-And-Follow-It/release/6290435
https://www.discogs.com/La-Monte-Young-Draw-A-Straight-Line-And-Follow-It-II/release/9812249
https://www.discogs.com/La-Monte-Young-Draw-A-Straight-Line-And-Follow-It-III/release/14667006
https://www.discogs.com/La-Monte-Young-Draw-A-Straight-Line-Follow-It-IV/release/14667041

YSI?

you're telling me. on the lookout.

I only recognize about three quarters of this. sequencing is wildly arbitrary but I can see the logic / listenability to it. I would have preferred putting all the Theatre of Eternal Music stuff on one volume rather than distributing it evenly across them all, it does kind of reenforce Young's claims of authorship doing it this way but that's what ID3 composer tags are for. inclusion of pieces by Maxfield / Goldstein / Byrd is interesting (no Jennings sadly, Young still hoarding those). pretty bold having vol 4 be a straight up bootleg of the official releases.

jesus

https://www.discogs.com/label/305189-Otherside-Recordings-2

I was looking at the Keiji Haino related releases and wondering what the story is... especially with the late-70s recordings. I'm very out of the loop nowadays, but where is all that stuff coming from? Is it things that are available via file-sharing being burned to cd-r and released, or someone with next-level access to a bunch of cool sources that no-one else has?

I'm not sure if they're on dimeadozen or not (because i've lost my login years ago) but I am guessing the Haino/Fushitsusha releases are soundboard recs that made their way out. They're not mentioned on Haino's discography website, though tbf I think Haino himself long lost track of his own releases, too.

sounds about right, there has been a TON of Haino, Rallizes, etc on dime

Looking at the label's discography I keep imagining Volcanic Tongue write-ups for each release. Highest possible recommendation!

lolll so true

whut

LA MONTE YOUNG IS ON BANDCAMP

http://justdreamsnyc.bandcamp.com

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, June 17, 2021 7:02 PM (one hour ago)

I appreciate the pricing, I would expect no less.

Whoa!!!

Ned otm

I appreciate the playback suggestions:

The Well-Tuned Piano covers an exceptionally wide dynamic range; some sections are extremely loud and other sections are extremely soft. In order for the soft sections to be loud enough to hear the inner resonances of the piano, ii is appropriate to set your volume control so that the loudest sections actually fill the listening space with sound and are as loud as you can comfortably enjoy them. The first few times that you listen to the work, you will find an optimum setting for your volume control which you may eventually want to mark in order to avoid adjusting the volume control as you listen.

those prices!

but yes, Ned otm.

$49 for six hours of music is reasonable.

When did La Monte Young start being Purple? I'm trying to figure out whether he or Prince did it first...

He was the first one in Western Civilization to wear purple, iirc.

He beat the Phoenicians several centuries last i checked.

Ha, exactly.

Lol yeah I know it's a silly question (obviously Young predates Prince) but seriously why is he aesthetically fixated on purple/magenta? Has he ever explained why his installations are lit with deep purple/magenta light (which extends to his album art, website, and beyond)? I would assume it has something to do with the frequency of the light as it relates to the frequencies of sounds he produces...

some context in this Alan Licht interview:

“The Dream House {is} a sound and a light environment… It's a time installation measured by a series of frequencies in sound and light. The idea was that the frequencies are continuous… We can think of the Dream House as a way in which we can find another environment that can influence our lives. Imagine generations being born in the Dream House. Children born there knowing almost nothing else… But the fact that they were born in the dream house, that they lived there for lifetimes and their parents lived there and their grandparents lived there, it would allow a new way of thought processing and it would allow people to transcend beyond the kind of life that we live.”

https://www.vice.com/en/article/4xqn33/ragas-and-ratios-6-things-we-learned-from-legendary-avant-garde-artist-la-monte-young

Marian Zazeela deserves most of the credit for the purple, imho

walking into the la monte young exhibit ‘dream house’ in nyc and the only other person in there was Larry David https://t.co/ZQnBygSFiq

— Jeffrey Silverstein (@futuremyth) January 26, 2022

Absurdly priced 4LP box set now up for preorder:

https://www.soundohm.com/product/trio-for-strings-4lp-box-1

Yeah, I’m torn on pulling the trigger. Would much rather have on 2 CDs

We've been putting on the Well-Tuned Piano when going to bed. Amazing how great it still sounds.

slightly cheaper direct from the DIA bookshop, but still $$$.

Really liked his look in the VU documentary.

xxxp it's 3 hours long! so 3 CDs, but yeah agreed

a lossless continuous single file is also available on Bandcamp but it's like $50

link?

WTF I coulda sworn it was here:
https://diaart.bandcamp.com/releases

maybe I'm confusing it with the download that came with the box (yes I bought it from Dia) which is continuous, but I swear it was up there before

How is the box?

pretty lavish and well pressed, huge booklet of a lot of stuff that I guess has appeared in other places but was new to me

lots of LONG pauses between "movements" or whatever they are, up into the 2-3 minute range

definitely a better listen as a whole piece but the individual sides also work well as standalones, generally keeping the pauses within the beginning/end of the side

maddeningly, the 8 sides are auto-coupled (sides 1&3 on LP1, 2&4 on LP2, etc, which is even more annoying in practice than it may sound here)

I'm a big fan of Charles Curtis so I was all over this, but the piece definitely has more in common with "The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China" than it does with "The Well Tuned Piano" - it's very minimal, for real

keep misreading this thread as "is la monte young" and thinking "no, he's even older than me"

maddeningly, the 8 sides are auto-coupled (sides 1&3 on LP1, 2&4 on LP2, etc

lol whaaaaat? do they seriously think there are still ppl using those stacking record players?

haha exactly

even tho this is pretty austere as far as composition/variation, the tones of the instruments sound really great and vary considerably between the various parts or movements or whatever they are, someday when I am bored I will count the number of sections in the whole piece but a creative person could probably track them out into something that treated the individual movements as individual tracks

do they seriously think there are still ppl using those stacking record players?

Maybe they expect you to play continuously over two turntables?

keep misreading this thread as "is la monte young" and thinking "no, he's even older than me"

The Devil is keeping him young.

Maybe they expect you to play continuously over two turntables?

that makes more sense than anything else I've thought of!

https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img/blogs/entry_img/2011/Jun/01/cue_mark_locket.jpg

I’m a big Charles Curtis and La Monte fan but I have to draw the line at $50+ per LP for a 4LP box set. I’ve never used the words vinyl and bubble in the same sentence before but I can’t help but think that something is going to pop.

This is standard LMY pricing though, nothing to do with the "vinyl revival".

Ha, was just posting the same thing. The Well-Tuned Piano in the Magenta Lights DVD sells for $89 on his Bandcamp, $307 for a signed copy.