[sdiy] Don't hit anybody where it hurts....

[Bob Roesler]

LaMonte Young has performed some entirely enjoyable works.

The Forever Bad Blues Band Live at the Kitchen's "Just Stompin'" is a two
hour blues ditty that I can listen to often.

There is also a 5 hour solo piano performance recorded at the DIA foundation
some years ago that I like listening to.

Most of his work is in just intonation, which I don't know *too* much about,
but certainly makes for an unusual experience for people not accustomed to
it.

I even enjoy The First Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer,
though admittedly, I don't find myself listening to it with the same
frequency as the previous two recordings.

Anyway, just my opinion. I like the occasional Cage, too.

Bob


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Grenader" <pgrenader at mksound.com>
To: "Peter Grenader" <pgrenader at mksound.com>; "harry"
<harrybissell at prodigy.net>; "synth-DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 6:33 AM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Don't hit anybody where it hurts....


> Wout brings up a good point here - 4 33 was a etude on silence, not
'rests'
> as I put it B4.
>
> The piece was actually written for solo piano.  The performer sits on the
> piano stand and opens the the cover. 4 minutes and 33 seconds later, the
> performer closes the cover.   I have heard many different descriptions of
> the performance, including the performer holding their hand frozen above
the
> keys for the duration, but this instruction is not listed in the notes.
>
> The ulitmate in fluxus and painful to some for sure.  But hey...it only
> lasts 4 and a half minutes.  The antithesis surely being the work of
LeMonte
> Young:  Two beading sine tones with no apparent envelope that shift a
> billionth of a 1/4 tone over a 30 minute period.
>
> For me, Cage's work is much more thought-provoking than Young's.
>
>
> > on 3/11/02 2:33 PM, harry at harrybissell at prodigy.net wrote:
> >
> >> Perhaps some oldsters remember John Cage's 4'33"  ???
> >
> > Ah...4 33...know it well.  Although passed off by many as pretentious
> > nonsense, it did it's job: the 'rests' in music are as important as the
> > notes.  Try telling this to Bill Bruford or Scarlatti,  for that matter!
> >
> > I have the score to this piece at home actually (no, i'm not being a
smart
> > ass here, there was a score).
> >
> > - Peter (45 years young and counting)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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