Alvin Lucier

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"