La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela
Selected Writings
Munich, Germany: Heiner Friedrich, 1969
104 pp., 21 x 14.5 cm., softcover
Edition of 2100, 98 of which are signed and numbered
A collection of writings by and about composer La Monte Young, and featuring drawings by his partner and collaborator Marian Zazeela.
The thin volume includes "Notes On The Continuous Periodic Composite Sound Waveform Environment Realizations Of "Map Of 49's Dream The Two Systems Of Eleven Sets Of Galactic Intervals Ornamental Lightyears Tracery," (which was also published in the Dan Graham edited issue of Aspen Magazine), "Dream House,"Conversation With La Monte Young By Richard Kostelanetz," The Soul Of The Word," "Lecture 1960," and "Poem To Diane."
"RICHARD KOSTELANETZ - What were your purposes in the pieces of your second year at Berkeley, the compositions of 1960, written after your encounter with Cage?
LA MONTE YOUNG - I was on my way to Mount Tamalpais, the biggest mountain in the Marin County area, and I started thinking about the butterfly. Alone, it made a very beautiful piece. Being very young, I could still take something so highly poetic and use it without the fear I would have now - that it would be trampled on. Now, I would offer something quite a bit more substantial than a butterfly or a fire - something that can’t be so easily walked on. After all, a butterfly is only a butterfly. No matter how much I write about the fact that a butterfly does make a sound - that it is potentially a composition - anyone that wants to can say, “Well, it’s only a butterfly.”
KOSTELANETZ - Your point, then, in bringing into the concert situation a jar of butterflies and then releasing them, was that a butterfly makes a sound.
YOUNG - True. Another important point was that a person should listen to what he ordinarily just looks at, or look at things he would ordinarily just hear."
Valued at between $800 and $1200 US, a PDF is available at Ubuweb, here.
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