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Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of music and sound installations exploring acoustic phenomena, especially resonance, as well as a former member of the Sonic Arts Union along with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma.
As a self-acknowledged composer of experimental music, Lucier’s compositions sometimes deal with elements of indeterminacy. Much of his work is heavily informed by science, revolving around the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely-tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media.
Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire and studied at Yale University and Brandeis University and spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship.
His pieces include Music On A Long Thin Wire in which a piano wire is strung across a room with magnets on either end, producing changing overtones and sounds, Crossings, in which tones played across a steadily rising sine wave produce interference beats, Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas in which the interference tones between sine waves create “troughs” and “valleys” of sound and silence, Music For Solo Performer, the first piece to use brain waves to produce sound, and Clocker, which uses biofeedback and reverberation.
As a self-acknowledged composer of experimental music, Lucier’s compositions sometimes deal with elements of indeterminacy. Much of his work is heavily informed by science, revolving around the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely-tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media.
Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire and studied at Yale University and Brandeis University and spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship.
His pieces include Music On A Long Thin Wire in which a piano wire is strung across a room with magnets on either end, producing changing overtones and sounds, Crossings, in which tones played across a steadily rising sine wave produce interference beats, Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas in which the interference tones between sine waves create “troughs” and “valleys” of sound and silence, Music For Solo Performer, the first piece to use brain waves to produce sound, and Clocker, which uses biofeedback and reverberation.
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jaystooge wrote:
Avant Garde Radio http://songza.com/listen/the-vanguard
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progtrance7 wrote:
"yeah. in your local dumpster." LOL [2]
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BoothsBullet wrote:
Music on a Long Thin Wire is simply transcendental
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TristanLR wrote:
ALvin Lucier, I love you.
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bruno__________ wrote:
i always read his name as 'ave lucifer'
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illadelphianjb wrote:
Clocker is pretty good. Discovered it through a cursory search for "polydyptic", which was used in Italo Calvino's novel "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler". More info here: http://www.dramonline.org/albums/alvin-lucier-clocker/notes. Trying to get a hold of some other work(s)
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Nemoflow wrote:
"Bird and Person Dyning" ♥
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phillip360 wrote:
Pauline if you are reading this, I left the front door key at Tony's house. Also he asked you to glue and expand the estrus and electrified 'pataphysics group.
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Hirapur wrote:
If you are sitting in a room listening to 'I Am Sitting In a Room', would it be right to say that you are not just hearing the natural resonant frequencies of the room that Alvin was recording in, but also the frequencies of the room you yourself are sat in?
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butteredcat wrote:
the very important thing is to find the difference between 'experimental' and 'avant-garde'. yep, the terms are similar, but not the same. not every musical experiment is either innovation or avant-garde.
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insomniacme wrote:
sure
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organisati0n wrote:
:-)
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AnaRitaCosta wrote:
i am sitting in a room = ***** + *
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gertietheduck wrote:
http://ubu.artmob.ca/sound/source/Lucier-Alvin_Sitting.mp3
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wppss wrote:
"I've alway been concerned that I Am Sitting In A Room is just as much about the resonant frequencies and formants of the speakers he was using as much as the room they were in. You can really hear those dodgy cones" - you're concerned about that? is it not the same sound you herad yesterday?
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DigiDan wrote:
"yeah. in your local dumpster." LOL
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phillip360 wrote:
Glue the estrus 'pataphysics group and absorb time machine lecture #6
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jambot wrote:
bitter. still it manages to be top track.
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deathloop wrote:
yeah. in your local dumpster.
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ShipDestroyer wrote:
anyone know where i can get a copy of i am sitting in a room? hmmm?
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