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La Monte Young
American, born 1935
Marian Zazeela
American, 1940–2024
1969
A 12-inch vinyl record that fixes La Monte Young’s long-duration, minimal drone work—recordings of sustained tones made at specific dates and times—into a physical, time-stamped object.
The cover is an almost entirely black square whose faint, mandala-like pattern is only just visible as a shinier, incised geometry, so subtle you must lean close to read the design.
This object translates Young’s radical focus on duration and sustained sound into a reproducible artifact, helping to extend minimalist music and sound art into the realm of recorded and conceptual artworks.
Medium
12-inch vinyl record
Dimensions
cover: 12 1/8 × 12 1/8" (30.8 × 30.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Committee on Prints and Illustrated Books Fund
Accession
854.2013.347
Palette
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