La Monte Young, "The Melodic Version Of The Second Dream Of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer From The Four Dreams Of China"

Emmett Williams, "For La Monte Young"

Performer asks if La Monte Young is in the audience.

Theater of Eternal Music, Dream House 78' 17"

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In 1974 the couple (LaMonte Young/Marian Zazeela) were approached by French experimental label Shandar to record a Theatre Of Eternal Music album. The resulting Dream House 78' 17" again featured two side-long pieces. Jon Hassell (trumpet) and Garrett List (trombone) joined the couple for a rendition of 13 1 73 5:35 - 6:14:03pm NYC, excerpted from Young's epic, continuous performance work The Tortoise, His Dreams And Journeys, while the second side was taken up with a further Drift Study. Hassell's and List's contributions to the Tortoise piece grafted fresh flesh on to Young's original vision, coaxing the eternally slumbering tortoise to poke its head out of its jewel encrusted shell and sniff the city air. There is also more than a hint of the massive influence that classical Indian singer Pandit Pran Nath had on Young's music during this period. The assembled voices tuned to their sinewaves and instruments eventually swell into a mass chorus of Asian adopted drone that rolls gently back and forth to produce a deep trance effect. -- The Wire

Young Drones

Those who were lucky enough to use the bathroom at Dangerous Curve on Sunday, during Analog's concert, would have found some more sound in the form of LaMonte Young's Composition No. 6, which was projecting from the bathtub. It's not unlike Young's The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath, which is just a tambura drone.


Young with Marian Zazeela