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La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music.
Jul 22, 2020 · THE COMPOSER LA MONTE YOUNG held his 84th birthday party on a drab, rainy Sunday afternoon last October inside the Church Street building where he has lived with his wife, the 80-year-old...
May 30, 2021 · Yesterday, for #droneday 2021, we performed 1 hour version of La Monte Young's Composition 1960 No.7, one of our favourite classic drone pieces. 2 long tape loops (6m one way and back each...
Mar 24, 2022 · La Monte Young, now 86, has released a lot of music in the past few years. In 2018, this composer and multi-instrumentalist, famed as a progenitor of Minimalism, reissued a six-hour, 24-minute...
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and performance artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in Fluxus and post-war avant-garde music.
Dec 3, 2021 · Here we explore the impact of avant-garde composer and artist, La Monte Young on one of the most important bands of the 1960s, The Velvet Underground.
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...