I have chosen, in this study, to go deeply into my 1961 Transformations, to note the guises in which it appeared, to identify its issues and to sort them out.

I will not rush toward an explanatory description of the piece as it is found in An Anthology (Monte Young, ed. La Monte Young and Jackson Mac Low, New York, 1963).
I prefer to establish its context and to explore correlative issues. I want to explore fully how Transformations is positioned:

.i    as a diversion from absurdist computationalist music
.ii    as a diversion from the derivations of exact science
.iii    as a cognitive nihilist object-lesson to exact science regarding derivations

Hardback, 14x23cm, 123pp

Joao Simoes, Edition of 500, 2024