La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer, musician, and artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers and a central figure in post-war avant-garde music. He is best known for his exploration of sustained tones, beginning with his 1958 composition Trio for Strings. His works have called into question the nature and definition of music, most prominently in the text scores of his Compositions 1960. Young has released very little recorded mater... Read more
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Composition 1960 #7 | The Velvet Underground | Writer | Buy on Amazon | |
The Melodic Version of the Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from the Four Dreams of China | The Velvet Underground | Writer | Buy on Amazon |