Alvin Lucier

http://research.umbc.edu/~tmoore/interview_frame.html

http://www.newmusicbox.com/page.nmbx?id=72fp01

http://www.instal.org.uk/

Fri 14 Oct
Doors 7pm (first act on 7.15pm)

Jandek
JOJO
Black Boned Angel
UP-TIGHT

Sat 15 Oct
Doors 4pm (first act on 4.30pm)

Tetuzi Akiyama
Birchville Cat Motel
directing hand
Rauhan Orkesteri
Sun City Girls
Hijokaidan

Sun 16 Oct
Doors 4pm (first act on 4.30pm)

Ingar Zach + Rhodri Davies
Tom Bruno
Loren Mazzacane Connors + Alan Licht
Chie Mukai
Henri Chopin
Pauline Oliveros + David Dove

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

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

This event will be archived online.

Yay!

I tried watching the Mumma episode of Aether tonight and instead I'm just watching the Lucier episode again

it's impossibly great

www.unstcollective.com
www.resonancefm.com

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

The Only Talking Machine of its Kind in the World

This is probably the most moving and beautiful of all of Lucier's pieces.

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"

Did everybody see this yet? Pretty cool.

http://gawker.com/5554154/what-does-a-video-look-like-after-1000-youtube-uploads

Let's see the CSI:Miami crime lab restore that video!

lucier-mania at wesleyan!

http://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/lucier.html

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).

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.

holy moly

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!

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.

you know me! in the subway, bringing up things

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0

http://www.bbc.co.uk/orchestras/events/1369

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

^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!

Ward u r in for a treat!

http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc497/WardFowler/Photo0061_zps74c62541.jpg

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

Fantastic report Ward, real shame I couldn't be there.

http://www.alvin-lucier-film.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZahY5IjbkZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGtS2mnYFQw&feature=youtu.be

5 year anniversary

https://twitter.com/alvinlucier

Follower #250.

This looks positively amazing. Stoked for the 120 page book(let) alone.

This compilation, if it can be called that, sorely misses 'Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas', 'Music On A Long Thin Wire' and especially 'Bird and Person Dyning', but perchance it's the best Lucier compilation out there. Can't wait for this box to be dropped at my doorstep.

wouldn't call that one a comp. new performances of older works are reboots. saw the sonic arts union show at issue project room a few months ago and lucier's new works for sinewaves were new territory; instead of keeping one or two slow moving sinewaves as foundational sounds to prompt the acoustical beating of the live instruments, there are quite a few sinewaves in motion, each with diverging / converging trajectories, so the latticework / beating coming from the electronics are already completely busy - not minimal at all, crazy sounding. like some kind of audio illusion bridge between radigue and amacher. it was amazing lucier was even there in person for the show - walking very slowly now, but on top of it, black lives matter t-shirt, surrounded by old friends

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.

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.”

has anyone figured out why red bull boosts avant garde music

RIP

RIP. I kind of guessed this when I saw this thread bumped.

:(

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

RIP

Oh fuck I’m glad I saw at 2019 Big Ears.

Also in a recent documentary I discovered he used the same brand of crushed tomatoes to make marinara sauce as my family does.

:-(

Was so lucky to see him do Music for Solo Performer. Just a little old man sitting quietly while everything erupted around him.

First mention of Alvin Lucier in the NYT, August 28, 1963 pic.twitter.com/Ni32QySlCP

— Marc Masters 🌵 (@Marcissist) December 2, 2021

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

waht

"I Am Being Cloned In A Room (In Perth)"

"I am sitting in a body different than the one I was in before"

"I am recording the sound of my soul and am going to play it back into the body"