YSI?
― sleeve, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 21:49 (three years ago) link
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.
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
jesus
https://www.discogs.com/label/305189-Otherside-Recordings-2
― sleeve, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 23:26 (three years ago) link
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?
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 09:44 (three years ago) link
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.
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 10:06 (three years ago) link
sounds about right, there has been a TON of Haino, Rallizes, etc on dime
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 14:14 (three years ago) link
Looking at the label's discography I keep imagining Volcanic Tongue write-ups for each release. Highest possible recommendation!
― brain (krakow), Wednesday, 5 August 2020 15:37 (three years ago) link
lolll so true
― sleeve, Wednesday, 5 August 2020 23:10 (three years ago) link
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)
― sleeve, Friday, 18 June 2021 03:20 (two years ago) link
I appreciate the pricing, I would expect no less.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 June 2021 03:23 (two years ago) link
Whoa!!!
― brimstead, Friday, 18 June 2021 03:29 (two years ago) link
Ned otm
― sleeve, Friday, 18 June 2021 03:33 (two years ago) link
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.
― jvc, Friday, 18 June 2021 09:33 (two years ago) link
those prices!
but yes, Ned otm.
― stirmonster, Friday, 18 June 2021 11:30 (two years ago) link
$49 for six hours of music is reasonable.
― Van Halen dot Senate dot flashlight (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 18 June 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link
When did La Monte Young start being Purple? I'm trying to figure out whether he or Prince did it first...
― J. Sam, Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:50 (two years ago) link
He was the first one in Western Civilization to wear purple, iirc.
― Through with “What’s the Buzz” (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 04:56 (two years ago) link
He beat the Phoenicians several centuries last i checked.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 30 October 2021 05:19 (two years ago) link
Ha, exactly.
― Fine, Fine, Superfine Career Opportunities (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 October 2021 05:20 (two years ago) link
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...
― J. Sam, Saturday, 30 October 2021 06:06 (two years ago) link
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
― Communist Hockey Goblin (sleeve), Saturday, 30 October 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
Marian Zazeela deserves most of the credit for the purple, imho
― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 30 October 2021 18:33 (two years ago) link
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
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
Absurdly priced 4LP box set now up for preorder:
https://www.soundohm.com/product/trio-for-strings-4lp-box-1
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Friday, 4 February 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I’m torn on pulling the trigger. Would much rather have on 2 CDs
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 February 2022 18:44 (two years ago) link
We've been putting on the Well-Tuned Piano when going to bed. Amazing how great it still sounds.
― The sensual shock (Sund4r), Friday, 4 February 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
slightly cheaper direct from the DIA bookshop, but still $$$.
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 4 February 2022 19:00 (two years ago) link
Really liked his look in the VU documentary.
― clemenza, Friday, 4 February 2022 19:06 (two years ago) link
xxxp it's 3 hours long! so 3 CDs, but yeah agreed
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:02 (two years ago) link
a lossless continuous single file is also available on Bandcamp but it's like $50
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:03 (two years ago) link
link?
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:11 (two years ago) 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
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link
How is the box?
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 February 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link
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
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:04 (two years ago) link
keep misreading this thread as "is la monte young" and thinking "no, he's even older than me"
― mark s, Friday, 4 February 2022 21:07 (two years ago) link
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?
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 4 February 2022 21:24 (two years ago) link
haha exactly
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link
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
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 22:53 (two years ago) link
do they seriously think there are still ppl using those stacking record players?
Maybe they expect you to play continuously over two turntables?
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
The Devil is keeping him young.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 4 February 2022 23:06 (two years ago) link
that makes more sense than anything else I've thought of!
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Friday, 4 February 2022 23:10 (two years ago) link
https://media.sandiegoreader.com/img/blogs/entry_img/2011/Jun/01/cue_mark_locket.jpg
― west elm girls (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 4 February 2022 23:13 (two years ago) link
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.
― zacata, Friday, 4 February 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link
This is standard LMY pricing though, nothing to do with the "vinyl revival".
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:08 (two years ago) link
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.
― bulb after bulb, Saturday, 5 February 2022 00:12 (two years ago) link
V true and solid points, that’s the exact reason I’ve never bought any of that stuff.
― zacata, Saturday, 5 February 2022 12:50 (two years ago) link
never thought I would see a reissue of The Black Album in my lifetime, let alone on CD. sweet mastering by Dubplates & Mastering (Basic Channel), sounds fantastic.
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Monday, 3 April 2023 20:06 (one year ago) link
(I have the LP which is flawless, I assume the CD is as well)
― obsidian crocogolem (sleeve), Monday, 3 April 2023 20:07 (one year ago) link
I think of this La Monte Young quote pretty often. pic.twitter.com/furVRoaXMV— Liam Cagney (@LiamCagney) April 4, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 12:42 (one year ago) link
Can confirm that the The Black Album CD also sounds fantastic - or at least, a significant upgrade on my CDR of an old vinyl rip. Can hear lots more detail in the second side especially, which now sounds pleasingly evil and none more black.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 11 April 2023 13:40 (one year ago) link