La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - The Black Record
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La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - The Black Record
*Rare vinyl: numbered edition 1777 of 2800 - the number is recorded on the reverse of the vinyl*
Country: Germany
Released: 1969
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Modern Classical, Experimental, Minimal
Credits: Voice, Electronics [Sine Waves], Gong [Bowed] - La Monte Young
Voice, Gong [Bowed] - Marian Zazeela
Notes: Numbered edition limited to 2800 copies.
Tracklisting:
A 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM Munich From Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery (23:00)
B 23 VIII 64 2:50:45-3:11 AM The Volga Delta From Studies In The Bowed Disc (20:15)
La Monte Young
Profile: "Born in Bern, Idaho, his family moved several times in his childhood while his father searched for work before settling in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from John Marshall High School and studied at Los Angeles City College where he came out ahead of Eric Dolphy in a saxophone audition for the school's jazz band. In LA's jazz milieu, he played alongside notable musicians including Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry and Billy Higgins.
He undertook further studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he received a BA in 1958, then at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1958 to 1960. In 1959 he attended the summer courses at Darmstadt under Karlheinz Stockhausen, and in 1960 relocated to New York in order to study electronic music with Richard Maxfield at the New School for Social Research. His compositions during this period were influenced by Anton Webern, Gregorian chant, Indian classical music, Gagaku, and Indonesian gamelan music...
...When Young moved to New York in 1960, he had already established a reputation as an enfant terrible of the avant garde. He initially developed an artistic relationship with Fluxus founder George Maciunas (with whom he published a text titled An Anthology) and other members of the nascent movement. Yoko Ono, for example, hosted a series of concerts curated by Young at her loft, and absorbed, it seems, his often parodic and politically charged aesthetic. Young's works of the time, scored as short haiku-like texts, though conceptual and extreme, were not meant to be merely provocative but, rather, dream-like.
Together Young and Zazeela have realized a long series of semi-permanent "Dream House" installations, which combine Young's just-intuned sine waves in elaborate, symmetrical configurations and Zazeela's quasi-calligraphic light sculptures. The effect is rigorous yet sensual, utilizing aspects of the viewer/auditor's perception to create sensory overload within a barely defined physical space. From January through April 19, 2009, "Dream House" was installed in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York as part of The Third Mind exhibition." (source: wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/)
Condition: This vinyl is in excellent condition. Would be happy to email more photos or answer any questions from a serious bidder. Ships worldwide.
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