La Monte Young
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American avant-garde composer (born 1935)
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- Works
- 4
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- Poem for chairs, tables, benches, etc. (or other sound sources)
- An anthology of chance operations..
- Conference 1960, ete 1960
- Selected writings
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La Monte Young has pioneered the concept of extended time durations in contemporary music for over 40 years. He contributed extensively to the study of just intonation and to the development of rational number based tuning systems that are used in his periodic composite sound waveform environments, as well as in many of his major performance works. Presentations of Young's work in the United States and Europe, as well as his theoretical writings <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/La+Monte+Youn
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Young
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bern
- Spouse
- Marian Zazeela
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- Documenta 5
- Genre
- experimental music
- Movement
- Fluxus
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Work location
- New York City
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- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- date of birth
- 1935-10-14
- described by source
- UbuWeb
- Commons category
- La Monte Young
- start of work period
- 1958-00-00
- end of work period
- 2014-01-01
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