Alvin Lucier (May 14, 1931 - December 1, 2021) was an American composer of … Read Full Bio ↴Alvin Lucier (May 14, 1931 - December 1, 2021) was 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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Adam O'Dell
Coming back to this to honor the legend. R.I.P. Lucier
Diogenes
Named my radio show after this my freshman year of college. Nobody has influenced the way I listen to music as much as Lucier. He was amazing. RIP
Alan Canon
I knew a married couple who were together the equivalent of three music schools worth of music historians in two brains, and they carefully dubbed me a high quality cassette with 90 minutes of this, as much as could possibly fit on one cassette. I listened to it many times, and have studied how it was made. Thank you. p.s., the Long Thin Wire and Craig Huxley's Blaster Beam (Goldsmith's "Klingon Attack" and "V'Ger" themes, and 2010 (1984)) occupy similar spaces in my understanding of semi-mechanical, semi-electronic instruments of the period.
tomadidntsleep
I don’t know what you just said but I like it
Allan Fabián De la Parra González
@tomadidntsleep im with you😂
P10xxoo
that’s what I aspire 4 my brain 🤧🎶
(the music knowledge part)
Mike Wolfe
The first Music... was originally broadcast live on KUNM in Albuquerque in 1979 A live connection to Alvin's equipment at Winrock shopping Center was used. The long thin wire was in a public area. No interruption for the entire broadcast (five continuous days) required permission from the FCC at that time. Changes in the environment and presence or absence of customers creates the variations. This is evidently from a different version.
paxxop
When my music teacher played this in class he said it was from a shopping centre. But it looks like that's not what got released on vinyl:
"These recordings were made by the composer on May 10, 1979 in the Rotunda of the U.S. Custom House, Bowling Green, NY City." From the sleeve notes, as per the "discogs" website linked above
Matt
I love this channel, and the detailed notes on each album. Cheers/thanks!
Louie Simon
Brilliant and beautiful. It's a shame so few people would be able to listen to this as music.