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Oct 14, 1935 Bern, Idaho, United States 88 years old
American composer
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About La Monte Young
- La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American avant-garde composer, musician, and artist recognized as one of the first American minimalist composers.
- His works are cited as examples of post-war experimental and contemporary music, and were tied to New York's downtown music and Fluxus art scenes.
- Young is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in Western drone music (originally referred to as "dream music"), prominently explored in the 1960s with the experimental music collective the Theatre of Eternal Music.
- He has engaged in musical and multimedia collaborations with a wide range of artists, including Tony Conrad, Pandit Pran Nath, John Cale, Terry Riley, and multimedia artist Marian Zazeela, with whom he developed the Dream House sound and light environment.Young sees his work as calling into question the nature and definition of music.
- Despite having released very little recorded material throughout his career—much of it currently out of print—some sources have described him as "the most influential living composer today".
- The Observer wrote that his work has had "an utterly profound effect on the last half-century of music."
