― Snappy (sexyDancer), Thursday, 3 February 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.newmusicbox.com/page.nmbx?id=72fp01
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 6 April 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 08:47 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.instal.org.uk/
Fri 14 OctDoors 7pm (first act on 7.15pm)
JandekJOJO Black Boned AngelUP-TIGHT
Sat 15 OctDoors 4pm (first act on 4.30pm)
Tetuzi AkiyamaBirchville Cat Moteldirecting handRauhan OrkesteriSun City GirlsHijokaidan
Sun 16 OctDoors 4pm (first act on 4.30pm)
Ingar Zach + Rhodri DaviesTom BrunoLoren Mazzacane Connors + Alan LichtChie MukaiHenri ChopinPauline Oliveros + David Dove
― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link
if you go you MUST see henri chopin (I haven't but spent time wondering what it must be like). there are lots of ok, and some wonderful sound poetry but he's so much better than any of 'em.
that's my pick
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.ubu.com/sound/aether.html
I watched 1, 3 and 4 last night (had already seen 2)
they're incredible for the patient
― milton parker (Jon L), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 17:29 (eighteen years ago) link
This event will be archived online.
Yay!
― Gerard (Gerard), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Thursday, 15 September 2005 03:45 (eighteen years ago) link
I tried watching the Mumma episode of Aether tonight and instead I'm just watching the Lucier episode again
it's impossibly great
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 15 September 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link
www.unstcollective.com www.resonancefm.com
― gubbins, Thursday, 15 September 2005 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 16 September 2005 07:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 16 September 2005 07:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 September 2005 08:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 16 September 2005 11:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Thursday, 6 July 2006 11:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 6 July 2006 12:57 (seventeen years ago) link
Unusually beautiful packaging is a plus as well.
You still need Panorama for "Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels", but this release beats Crossings hands down
― milton parker (Jon L), Thursday, 6 July 2006 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 March 2007 12:08 (seventeen years ago) link
The Only Talking Machine of its Kind in the World
This is probably the most moving and beautiful of all of Lucier's pieces.
― I know, right?, Thursday, 28 August 2008 00:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Interview with him on UBUWEB is brilliant. I nearly crack up everytime he says "I mean, that's fascinating, don't you think?" forcing the interviewer to be all "Uh, yeah, definitely"
― I know, right?, Friday, 29 August 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Did everybody see this yet? Pretty cool.
http://gawker.com/5554154/what-does-a-video-look-like-after-1000-youtube-uploads
― The Clegg Effect (Tracer Hand), Friday, 4 June 2010 12:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Let's see the CSI:Miami crime lab restore that video!
― Scelsi Hotel (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 4 June 2010 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
lucier-mania at wesleyan!
http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/lucier.html
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
The Wesleyan University Orchestra, Gamelan Ensemble and Collegium Musicum perform Alvin Lucier's ensemble works Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers (1994), Six Geometries (1993), Panorama 2 (2011), Exploration of the House (2005), and Shadow Lines (2008).
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
serious brainpower
Panel to include Robert Ashley, David Behrman, Paula Matthusen, Gordon Mumma, Pauline Oliveros and Christian Wolff. Moderated by Anthony Braxton, Professor of Music.
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
holy moly
― vitameatawalloginavegamin (donna rouge), Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i got the schedule for this. wish i was there. as usual, all the interesting stuff in new england happens the minute i leave town.
i will be interviewing him, though!
― geeta, Thursday, 3 November 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
hey geeta
good imdb review of one of the 'Dr. Chicago' series of films I brought up in the subway: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203426/
I haven't seen it myself, sure want to.
http://georgemanupelli.com/
The Chicago films do not use actors. Instead, the main characters are played by major avant garde talents from other creative fields. Dr. Chicago is played by renowned composer Alvin Lucier whose stream-of-consciousness soliloquies in the films are punctuated by his ferocious stutter. Painter and performance artist Mary Ashley, a primary member of the legendary ONCE Group, smolders throughout as Chicago's girlfriend, Sheila Marie.
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 3 November 2011 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
you know me! in the subway, bringing up things
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 3 November 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
yeah I really can't believe I haven't seen these yet:http://www.artsjournal.com/postclassic/2009/07/the_return_of_dr_ch-ch-ch-ch-c.html
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 3 November 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0
― Pauper Management Improved (Sanpaku), Friday, 23 March 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/1369
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
There is nothing else like 'Still Lives' and any chance to physically hear it with the use of your body shouldn't be missed
looking forward to this on sunday: http://www.thelab.org/index.php/schedule/events/648-charles-curtis
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
^kinda how I feel about "bird & person dyning", went to a performance of it when I was 19 & have wanted to hear it again ever since. Talked to lucier afterwards, really nice man!
― ☯ t (wins), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:42 (eleven years ago) link
Ward u r in for a treat!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:31 (eleven years ago) link
ty guys, i will be there
milton that curtis gig looks sweet - are there any particular charles curtis recordings you wld rec - i remember seeing a dbl alb (?) w/ a helix cover (??), that wld prob be the most common item here in the uk
xyzzzz - come to glasgow!
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Ward - re: Curtis, see my post from 2006 with Charles' recording, the link still works.
Have to say that Glasgow gig looks amazing and worth the trip. Let you know if I can make it near the time.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
xp
you're talking about this one: http://www.discogs.com/Anthony-Burr--Charles-Curtis-Alvin-Lucier/release/776910
I like it -- good overview of the oscillator + instrument beating pieces, well recorded. gotta say the packaging is unusually good, not only beautiful but really re-enforces the music.
These worth checking out too:http://www.discogs.com/%C3%89liane-Radigue-Pour-Charles-Curtis-Naldjorlak/release/1542131http://www.discogs.com/La-Monte-Young--Marian-Zazeela-Just-Charles-Cello-In-The-Romantic-Chord-2002-2003/release/1059636
my favorite of the oscillator + instrument pieces is probably Lucier's ground-zero recording - http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd1015.html -- each instrument acts so differently with the sine wave, you get a lot more variety than you do when two dedicated instrumentalists do their thing for two whole discs. my second favorite is 'Panorama' - http://www.lovely.com/titles/cd1012.html
― Milton Parker, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
xyzzzz,i am in NYC the week before the Lucier weekend, la-di-da - (and def gonna go to the Dream House on one day of my trip) - but you wld of course be a welcome guest in the dream house here - now, to read yr post above
ty again milton, will study
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
OK, so the performance of 'Bird & Person Dyning' was def the highlight of this weekend, for me - sort've reminded me of Ashley's Automatic Writing in that it had the almost subliminal feel/effect of being whispered to, throughout. In fact, seeing the Lucier works performed made it clearer to me that his project is, at least in part, an attempt to bring to light the 'hidden' language of feedback, electricity, amplification, etc - a secret sound world that we don't normally hear or recongise, in the course of the everyday, but that runs perpetually, just out of reach. The piece for cello and amplified vases also illuminated this, with the cellist almost coaxing sound from the pots, like a snake-charmer. 'Still Lives' wasn't quite as effective, this time; the drones didn't seem to be loud enough, and funnily enough, a lack of volume was also the problem w/ the o'malley/ambarachi performance, both of them playing their amplified guitars flat on a table using e-bows, opposite each other, but not really generating enough of a noise to get the full speaker/feedback interaction-thing going. O'malley later got the chance to bring the skronk on a massive Dumitrescu piece for orchestra and electric guitar that closed the fest - lots of metal bashing, percussion, cosmic cataclysms, stirring stuff.
It involved four parade sized bass drums with ping pong balls on fishing wire dangled in fron of the heads..very low pitched square waves were played via speakers into the open end of the drums causing the ping pong balls to swing at various speeds. created a sort of sparse polyrhythm free of human hands and looked amazing.
This was also in situ throughout the fest, and was great to watch and experience - there was also an element of suspense or surprise, wondering when the ping pong balls would stir against the drums. Took a couple of pics of this on my phone, hope to upload them later.
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 May 2013 07:56 (eleven years ago) link
http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc497/WardFowler/Photo0061_zps74c62541.jpg
― Ward Fowler, Monday, 13 May 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like an amazing show
found a copy of this recently: http://www.amazon.com/Chambers-Scores-Alvin-Lucier/dp/0819550426/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368553358&sr=1-2
worth it. the early scores are all prose, pointing at and digging around the ideas behind the music; I found it as inspiring as Silence or A Year From Monday
― Milton Parker, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 17:45 (eleven years ago) link
Fantastic report Ward, real shame I couldn't be there.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 14 May 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.alvin-lucier-film.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahY5IjbkZU
― j., Saturday, 4 January 2014 01:46 (ten years ago) link
Ha, that's amazing, and heartening to hear. The guy's 87 and wearing a BLM shirt! Good for him.
Call it a comp, call it a reboot: I'm excited about it either way.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 18 September 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Pnb_ZE7Hs
Lucier is compelling throughout. Majestically ignores the interviewer for much of the interview. (I hate this interviewer but he gets good results so maybe he is good?)
“How do I get in touch with John Cage?” “Have you tried calling him?”
AL: [Fascinating detailed explanation of upcoming piece]Interviewer cuts him off: [bored and unimpressed] “Okay. Something to look forward to.”
― lukas, Sunday, 10 March 2019 06:01 (five years ago) link
has anyone figured out why red bull boosts avant garde music
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 10 March 2019 17:49 (five years ago) link
RIP
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
RIP. I kind of guessed this when I saw this thread bumped.
― jvc, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
:(
― huile about oeuf (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 18:24 (two years ago) link
It is a cliche to name a "genius" who "changed" music, listening or recording for everyone who followed. Often it is a bullshit honorific. I am however sincere when I say Alvin Lucier, genius, invented new ways to hear, execute, record and think about music and sound. Requiescat.— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) December 1, 2021
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 19:34 (two years ago) link
― emil.y, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
Oh fuck I’m glad I saw at 2019 Big Ears.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
Also in a recent documentary I discovered he used the same brand of crushed tomatoes to make marinara sauce as my family does.
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
:-(
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 December 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
Was so lucky to see him do Music for Solo Performer. Just a little old man sitting quietly while everything erupted around him.
― lukas, Thursday, 2 December 2021 00:02 (two years ago) link
First mention of Alvin Lucier in the NYT, August 28, 1963 pic.twitter.com/Ni32QySlCP— Marc Masters 🌵 (@Marcissist) December 2, 2021
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 December 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
Uh
Hey, um, can we talk about this factoid in the art forum Lucier piece? pic.twitter.com/t31bE1laSh— Unseen Worlds (@Unseen_Worlds) February 3, 2022
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
waht
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 3 February 2022 22:42 (two years ago) link
"I Am Being Cloned In A Room (In Perth)"
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:50 (two years ago) link
"I am sitting in a body different than the one I was in before"
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:55 (two years ago) link
"I am recording the sound of my soul and am going to play it back into the body"
― bad milk blood robot (sleeve), Thursday, 3 February 2022 23:56 (two years ago) link