La Monte Young Audio Recordings

NYC

Text Box: The purpose of this website is to attempt to gather information on any audio recordings of La Monte Young compositions that exist in an attempt to catalogue and make sense out of what’s “floating around”. The list is sorted in order of it’s known (or approximate) recording date in the format YY MM DD with the month in Roman numerals for consistency, despite the fact that on all official La Monte Young releases before 1980, they were listed in DD MM YY format. Click on any underlined title for a more detailed description of the track. Titles completely highlighted with a GREEN background means I have not yet heard the recording. If only the time length is in green, it means that a longer recording may exist. The time lengths listed are based on the music portion and does not include applause or announcements. Please also check out a transcript of Angus MacLise’s Universal Solar Calendar Here’s a correction to the 4-CD bootleg “Der Zweck dieser Serie is nicht Unterhaltung” (aka “The Purple Set”) Please email anything you can to help make this a more useful and accurate online resource. Thanks Michael F. , Ernest T.,David ,Aymeric L. ,Dave L.,Andreas O.,Shinobu G.,Gordon L. for your contributions.

Updated - 09 IX 10

60 ?? ??

Piano Version

23 min 31 sec

Arabic Numeral (any integer) for H. F.

NYC ?

63 X 19

WKCR-FM 1984

11 min 30 sec

NYC ?

fifth day of the hammer : Bb Dorian Blues

61 ?? ??

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Death Chant

NYC ?

64 VIII 23

2:50:45 - 3:11 am

20 min 15 sec

the volga delta from Studies in The Bowed Disc

NYC

65 IV 25

8:15 - 8:45 pm

32 min 13 sec

NYC

64 VIII 6

German FM 1973

50 min 41 sec

day of gammadion : The Well-Tuned Piano

NYC ?

64 III ??

WKCR-FM 1984

14 min 41 sec

Early Tuesday Morning Blues

NYC ?

64 ?? ??

Pocket Theatre ?

19 min 28 sec

The Tortoise Droning Selected Pitches

from The Holy Numbers for The Two Black Tigers,

The Green Tiger and The Hermit ?

NYC ?

65 VIII 15

WKCR-FM 1984

45 min 37 sec

day of the antler

from The Obsidian Ocelot, The Sawmill, and The Blue Sawtooth High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer Refracting The Legend of The Dream of The Tortoise Traversing The 189/98 Lost Ancestral Lake Region Illuminating Quotients from The Black Tiger Tapestries of The Drone of The Holy Numbers

NYC ?

63 XII 17

WKCR-FM 1984

14 min 49 sec

NYC ?

the fire is a mirror

63 XII 18

WKCR-FM 1984

15 min 12 sec

NYC ?

65 II 22

Heiner Friedrich

Gallery tape

NYC ?

Untitled Gong Solo

64 I 12

German FM 1973

11 min 49 sec

NYC ?

the first twelve : Sunday Morning Blues

63 XI 28

WKCR-FM 1984

21 min 35 sec

NYC ?

64 IV 2-3

Florida FM 1990

24 min 6 sec

NYC

day of the holy mountain : Pre-Tortoise Dream Music

69 I 31

12:17:33-12:49:58pm

9 min 58 sec

NYC

68 VIII 5

4:37:40↔5:09:50 pm

20 min + 20 min

NYC

69 VII 31

10:26 - 10:49 pm

23 min 0 sec

Map of 49’s Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery

Munich

68 XI 17

10:10 - 10:40 pm

30 mins

NYC ?

day of the cliff

65 ?? ??

KPFA-FM

16 min 6 sec

42 for Henry Flynt

San Francisco

60 IV ??

WKCR-FM 1984

13 min 35 sec

NYC ?

71 X 19

6:52 - 7:42 pm

18 min 5 sec

Map of 49’s Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery

NYC

73 I 13

5:35 - 6:14:03 pm

39 min 3 sec

Map of 49’s Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery

NYC

73 VII 14

9:27:27-10:06:41 pm

39 min 14 sec

NYC

77 XI 29

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Arabic Numeral for H. F. (Timpani Version)

Torino

77 XI 29

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Composition 1960 # 7 (Vibraphone Version)

Torino

77 XI 29

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Composition 1960 # 7 (Ensemble Version)

Torino

81 X 25

6:17:50-11:18:59 pm

301 min 9 sec

The Well-Tuned Piano

NYC

82 ?? ??

?

74 min 0 sec

The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath : An Homage

NYC

84 ?? ??

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5 min 56 sec

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81 ?? ??

Installation

15 min 32 sec

Chords from The Well-Tuned Piano

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87 V 16

?

7 min 24 sec

Composition 1960 # 7

86 ?? ??

?

2 min 46 sec

Venice ?

87 V 10-11

6:43pm-1:07:45am

384 min 45 sec

The Well-Tuned Piano in The Magenta Lights

NYC

89 VI 8

1:42 - 1:52 am

10 min 32 sec

Poem for Chairs, Tables, Benches etc.

Paris

91 I ??

University of Iowa

11 min 58 sec

Chronos Kristalla

Iowa City

90 XII 9

9:35 - 10:52 pm

77 min 5 sec

The Melodic Version of The Second Dream

of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China

NYC

90 ?? ??

?

39 min 27 sec

The Lower Map of the Eleven’s Division In The Romantic Symmetry (over a 60 cycle base) in Prime Time from 112 to 144 with 119

NYC

70 ?? ??

12 min 17 sec

Map of 49’s Dream The Two Systems of Eleven Sets of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery

NYC ?

81 III 14

?

30 sec

Composition 1960 # 7 (Piano Version)

Firenze

92 X 17

Trio Basso

57 min 11 sec

Trio for Strings (Trio Basso Version)

Cologne

93 ?? ??

Germany FM

42 min 23 sec

The Melodic Version of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer’s Second Dream of The First Blossom of Spring from The Twelve Subsequent Dreams of China

Frankfurt

93 ?? ??

Studio

6 min 17 sec (Total)

Five Small Pieces for String Quartet,

On Remembering A Naiad :

A Wisp / A Gnarl / A Leaf / A Twig / A Tooth

Paris

93 I 14

8:54 - 10:54 pm

122 min 16 sec

Young’s Dorian Blues in G

NYC

98 VI 9

Studio

21 sec + 33 sec

Composition 1960 # 7 (2 Versions)

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93 ?? ??

Studio

1 min 37 sec

NYC

03 XI 26

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Just Charles & Cello in the Romantic Chord

?

93 IV ??

Merkin Hall

40 min 0 sec

The Melodic Version of The Second Dream

of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China

NYC

91 VIII ??

?

58 min 44 sec

Young’s Dorian Blues in G

?

92 VIII 06

Spektrum

115 min 19 sec

Young’s Dorian Blues in G

Augsburg

92 VIII 09

Kunst-und Ausstellungshallle

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Young’s Dorian Blues in G

Bonn