LaMonte Young's Wild Kingdom

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torut

The Theatre of Eternal Music - Dream House 78'17'' (full)
https://www.youtube.com/v/iezxej1S52E
La Monte Young - voice, sine waves
Marian Zazeela - voice
Jon Hassell - trumpet
Garrett List - trombone

Just started listening to it. Mesmerizing.

PotashPie

Since The Well-Tuned Piano has gotten so rare and pricey, here's a good alternative: Terry Riley's The Harp of New Albion. I see the works as being similar in that they both used alternately-tuned pianos.

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Quote from: Foomsbah on October 07, 2016, 12:26:07 PM
Since The Well-Tuned Piano has gotten so rare and pricey, here's a good alternative: Terry Riley's The Harp of New Albion. I see the works as being similar in that they both used alternately-tuned pianos.

True, but they're different tunings. La Monte's piano was modified, each key has only one string.

milk

There is a free recording of WTP available as a podcast. It's called "no such program." I was able to download this podcast as an MP3. Not the best format I know. But I listen to it frequently.

torut

The Well-Tuned Piano DVD has become available.

http://melafoundation.org/TWTP2018.html

MELA Foundation and Just Dreams recordings are rereleasing a new deluxe DVD edition of The Well-Tuned Piano in The Magenta Lights. 

Young's continuous 6 hour-24 minute performance of his masterpiece is now back in print for the first time since 2001. We are happy to announce that this edition contains a 52-page booklet, which includes La Monte and Marian's essays on their works and a major essay by their senior disciple Jung Hee Choi. For the first time in these notes, Jung Hee is laying out the tuning for all to understand the underlying workings of this masterpiece.