La Monte Young
Bern/Idaho 1935 - lebt in New York



          

The Well Tuned Piano (1981), 1987
5 LP
A-1989-08
Audio
 
Klavier, Experimentelle Musik, Sound
La Monte Young
 
“’The Well Tuned Piano’ is dedicated to Marian and this performance 81 X 25, 6:17:50 - 11:18:59 p.m., NYC is dedicated to our guru Indian Master Vocalist Pandit Pran Nath” (zit. nach Plattencover).

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"’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, it 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" (La Monte Young, zit. nach LP-Broschüre).

"La Monte Young is like a one-man space race to the moon. Just as the technological spin-offs of NASA have influenced diverse aspects of American Life, Young's determined cultivation of e few musical idioms has inadvertently introduced new techniques to a wide variety of artists, composers, and musicians working in rock, jazz, and ’serious’ music. For Young music is a supernatural form of communication which grows organically from purely natural phenomena" (David Farneth, zit. nach LP-Broschüre).