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La Monte Young is an American avant-garde artist, composer, and musician, born on October 14, 1935, in a log cabin in Bern, Idaho. He is widely recognized as one of the first minimalist composers and is known for his exploration of drone music. Young attended high school in Los Angeles, where he played saxophone in a group with Billy Higgins and other musicians. He continued his education in Berkeley, where he met a lifelong friend and collaborator. In the Bay Area, he discovered the poetry of a notable figure at the City Light bookshop. Young then moved to New York City, where he curated a series of concerts at Yoko Ono's loft, quickly gaining a legendary status. He studied electronic music and became associated with many Fluxus artists, who performed his pieces in their concerts. Along with another collaborator, he published "An Anthology," which collected printed works by radical artists of the time. Young began assembling an ensemble to perform his music, and a significant breakthrough occurred when he met his lifelong collaborator and partner. This group included Welsh student, mathematician, percussionist, and poet Angus MacLise, and became known as the Theater of Eternal Music, performing many groundbreaking concerts. Over the decades, the ensemble has seen many musicians come and go. Since the late 1950s, La Monte Young has focused on pieces of extended duration with minimal, often microtonal, change, establishing himself as one of the fathers of the minimal music movement