La Monte Young / Marian Zazeela - 31 VII 69 10:26 - 10:49 PM / 23 VIII 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 AM The Volga Delta LPLa Monte Young was born in Bern, Idaho in 1935. He began his music studies in Los Angeles and later Berkeley, California before relocating to New York City in 1960, where he became a primary influence on Minimalism, the Fluxus movement and performance art through his legendary compositions of extended time durations and the development of just intonation and rational number based tuning systems. With his collaborator since 1962, artist Marian Zazeela,

he started in music as a bassist in blues bands but switched to tenor sax under the influence of his Cleveland friend Albert Ayler

the land where the CNT-FAI shined in 1936

’” Romano says

We were friends first

and cited as a direct influence to Diamanda Galas and Patti Smith's own freeform vocal excursions

Composer Pauline Oliveros observed that when we listen deeply to the world around us

a ‘slice of life’ from one onlooker to the next

Sometimes change comes with big shocks

when the extreme performances of Hijokaidan first attracted attention

and answering machine messages

in this manner

on the mightiest format