la monte young well tuned piano

[nonmonnonmon]

up主が100万なんて、アマゾンの「言い値」を真に受けてるの­は笑えない。

実際CD盤なんて200～300ドルで買えますよ。

[juanbarros88]

NO!

[tabietaful]

sounds like finnish modern kantele played by some child

[midzulo]

The just tuning of the piano in this piece uses only intervals derived from the 3rd and the 7th overtone (perfect 5th and a 7th that's flatter than a minor 7th in 12 TET), but avoids thirds (derived from 5th overtone).

12TET, the standard tuning now in Western music, is an approximation of pythaghorean tuning (based on perfect 5ths). The 5ths in 12TET are so close to just intonation, that the difference is only perceivable with sustained sounds such as organ.

[MLAOTNMCC]

Fantastic upload!

[eddiefavor]

Such wonderful sound and such elitist distribution - I mean, what's up with the irony of his purposeful paucity of tape, vinyl or cd? I remember hearing an awesome 3-D performance on radio in the 1980's in NYC where he was messing with holographic sound that only appeared at certain points in the room where positive sound interference was meant to take place - where can that be found? Nobody talks about that stuff. This guy is amazing but so frustratingly selfish about access to his product.

[profyost]

It is truly disappointing that his music is not more readily available. I found his Gramavision releases while they were out, but it's been so long my copy of this has deteriorated to the point it doesn't play. I'm glad I made back-ups because I feel that it is the best music recorded, ever.

[anxiousnightingale]

The classic music scale comes from physics : the vibration of a simple string contains the fundamental note, and also its harmonics, where there are the other notes (the fifth, the third, ...). And so, when we hear A C E successively, it's like we hear one note, the A.

But some other scales (turkish music for example) contain intervals which "are not in nature", like Mr La Monte Young's "well tuned piano". These scales generate more new emotionaly interesting sounds.

[sshuck]

Western polyphonic music involves (and, beginning with Jean-Philipe Rameau, is consciously based on) the succession of harmonies resultant from modal voice-leading. That is no more "in nature" than the departures and returns of melody to the drone in various non-Western musics. And not long after Rameau, the tuning convention of keyboards, and as a result all other instruments, became "well-tempered", which is not in your "nature" either.

[tanora1]

Well said.

[richtrophicherbs]

@anxiousnightingale

You've got it back to front! It's the equally tempered scale that is "not in nature".

You don't need to believe me; volumes have been written on the subject. Just google "just intonation".

[daos87]

such a great music can be made with just intonation!

[schizoidman2190]

incredible

[cbnetmkr]

Wow. Absolutely gorgeous. Thats La Monte himself on the piano right? Viva Just Intonation

[donotloiter]

yes

[josepablofm]

Sure.

[Offlighton]

The best piano piece of the world.