Flotation Device 2025-10-12 - La Monte Young at 90

Flotation Device celebrates La Monte Young, the father of minimalism, for his 90th birthday with a look at his uncompromisingly static and intense music that gave rise to everything from ambient and noise music to the popular beat-driven minimalism of Glass, Reich and Riley. We also check out a newly-recorded Harry Partch novelty, and fresh albums by Shardik, Dai Fujikura and Dobrinka Tabakova that we’ll relate back to historical gems by Joe McPhee and Henry Cow that just turned 50. Creative and improvised music from the Northwest and around the world with host Michael Schell from 91.3 KBCS Bellevue/Seattle/Tacoma.