Gareth Davis (Merzbow, Christian Marclay), Roland Dahinden (Miles Davis, Anthony Braxton), Robin Rimbaud (Scanner), Agathe Max (Rhys Chatham), Pau Solas Masafrets, Arthur Klaasens, John Eckhardt, Daniel Havel and Martin Švec make contact with the minimalist scores of In C and Composition 1960 #7 in a site-specific arrangement. Listeners will be able to move and lounge, think and spontaneously perceive. Prague Music Performance thus loosely follows up on its successful project with Stockhausen's Aus den Sieben Tagen last year.
Jazz, Indian ragas, psychedelic drugs, Webernian serialism, Japanese gagaku, Cage-esque approach to silence and coincidence all influenced the work of La Monte Young and Terry Riley.
They first met in the late 1950s. Both cultivated music full of repetitions and long static structures. Later it came to be called minimalism and Young, with the help of music publicists, claimed to be its father. At a time when the most avant-garde, complex compositions were being produced in Europe, Terry Riley made do with thirty-three fragments in C major and Young with one perfect fifth. A radical simplicity that both provokes and comforts to this day.