La Monte Young
Mix
Wire mix: Tashi Wada on tuning
May 2024
To accompany his essay on the experimental potential of tuning in The Wire 484, Los Angeles based composer Tashi Wada creates a mix demonstrating different approaches to its wide-ranging forms and principles
News
Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival this November
Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival this November
La Monte Young, George Lewis, John Zorn and a special AMM programme featured at Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival this November
Book Extract
Read an excerpt from David Grubbs's Records Ruin The Landscape
February 2014
What does it mean to describe a recording as being of a moment in which it did not circulate? Asks Grubbs, on Henry Flynt's unrecorded and recorded output.
News
Early minimalist composition that inspired La Monte Young recorded and released for the first time
Early minimalist composition that inspired La Monte Young recorded and released for the first time
Dennis Johnson's five hour 1959 piece November, which La Monte Young credited with inspiring The Well Tuned Piano has been transcribed and performed for the first time, and is being released as a 4CD box set.
In Conversation
Listen to Jeremy Grimshaw's talk on La Monte Young from Unsound New York
August 2012
Listen to a presentation by Jeremy Grimshaw, author of the recent book Draw A Straight Line And Follow It: The Music And Mysticism Of La Monte Young.
News
Unsound Labs announces New York discussion programme
Unsound Labs announces New York discussion programme
Unsound New York has announced its Unsound Labs discussion programme for next month's festival, presented by The Wire . Monolake (aka Ableton...