YOUNG, La Monte

The truest Minimal composer, this Young has devoted most of his professional life to exploring the possibilities of a severely limited palette. After beginning as an audacious post-Cagean composer who, among other stunts, released butterflies into a performance space as a piece of music, he hit upon The Tortoise, His Dreams and Journeys, in which Young along with a few colleagues produce a continuous, barely changing, harmonic (consonant) sound that is amplified through a prodigious system to the...