Tag Archives: avant garde music

La Monte Young: The Black Record – Layer upon layer of sound.

The father of drone, the man himself.  Someting very very special for my lucky readers today. La Monte Thornton Young is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist. Young is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer.  His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental, and contemporary […]

Suzanne Ciani – Atari and other forms of love

http://www.junostatic.com/ultraplayer/09/MicroPlayer.swf As we are all well aware now, I have a new-found love and passion for different types of experimental music – the world of sound opening up for me currently is nothing short of life-altering. There is one small problem with these joyous discoveries. The deeper toward sound I move, the fewer women around […]