Everyone… razzamataz and look at me: I was doing something that was intended to take you into a very high spiritual state. La Monte Young
And that “something” was smashing a piano with an axe. Among other things.
La Monte Young is an American avant-garde composer, a minimalist, whose work has “called into question” the very nature of music. Which also what any accidental sounds do. Always.
You know immediately that you are not cool if you do not recognize that smashing a piano with an axe, as an act of musical performance, is the most incredibly brilliant thing you have ever seen. You are now in a very high spiritual state.
What is so brilliant about it is that you invite rational people to ridicule what you are doing, which makes it cool for hipsters to announce that they understand it. They get it. They are cool, hip, youthful, still fuckable. Not like those un-cool nerds.
But you– you are a dinosaur. A fossil. You probably still listen to AM radio.