La Monte Young:The Second Dream of the HighTension Line Step
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well is it sadly so or is it great... it's like not knowing a language and listening to a song where you just don't get what the person is saying although you can hear it... while in fact the song can have wonderful passionate deep lyrics that with the the melody convey a very strong feeling of happiness or sadness... I don't know what to think of it... I guess education is essential in recognizing works of art...
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when nothing is in your mind, or just neurotics feelings, minimalist downtown music will full u up..music is expresion, first of all.
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@5191263 ya but one must first learn to listen to certain music genres such as this and that usually requires analysis...
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@TallFastLoud again...really not sure if you know what any of this means...
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I'm not sure you know what any of what you're saying means...
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2 words: Acquired Taste
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Just splendid as a slow motion of light in high harmonic landscapes.
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@5191263 listening and analysis are inseparable. when you "listen" to music without analyzing, either your brain is not fully coding the input or you're analyzing it subconsciously without realizing it. the distinction between conceptual art and non-conceptual art is a false dichotomy.
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unfortunately, this is the problem of all music...
i prefer the term "listening" to "analysis"
this is no more difficult to understand than a summer's night on a lake
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Does anyone have a copy of this live??? I would love to give that a listen. I hear he did a 85 minute version of Second Dream last year at BU.



Youtube is whatever you want it to be
Diosade 2 years ago 35
This sounds more as a study of sounds... The problem of contemporary music is that it needs to be enjoyed with some sort of understanding of music, when you can analyse it and so on... At the firsts steps it sounds strange, but once you analyse it counciously, it may become a wonderfull work which you might appreciate a lot... Here for instance we hear a lot of dissonance but it becomes perfectly consonnant arount 1:45...
Requiem77777 2 years ago 14