Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
Released: Oct 28, 2003
Label: N\A
Released: Oct 28, 2003
Label: N\A
Four different versions exist of Alvin Lucier's 1972 work Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, of which this is the second (the others are gallery installations with or...
Continue[+]
Vespers and Other Early Works
Released: Oct 29, 2002
Label: N\A
Released: Oct 29, 2002
Label: N\A
"There is nothing like "Vespers" in the literature of music," writes Robert Ashley in his liner notes; in Alvin Lucier's case the hype is justified, as showcased on the Vespers and Other Early...
Continue[+]
Theme
Released: Jan 4, 2000
Label: N\A
Released: Jan 4, 2000
Label: N\A
Theme consists of three pieces composed by Alvin Lucier in the mid-'90s. In Music for Piano With Magnetic Strings, he has pianist Lois Svard place several E-Bows (small electromagnets often used...
Continue[+]
Crossings
Released: Mar 1, 1990
Label: N\A
Released: Mar 1, 1990
Label: N\A
Pure, profound and classic. Complex ideas realized simply. This CD includes the pieces "In Memoriam Jon Higgins" (1984) / "Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings and Pure Wave Oscillator" (1985) /...
Continue[+]
Navigations for Strings/Small Waves
Released: November 2003
Label: N\A
Released: November 2003
Label: N\A
Much of Lucier's work since the late '60s concerned itself, to one degree or another, with the relationship of pure sine tones to those produced by human-manipulated instruments, their similarities...
Continue[+]
In Memoriam Jon Higgins (1984) / Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings, and
Released: 1991
Label: N\A
Released: 1991
Label: N\A
In "Crossings" for a small orchestra of 16 players equally divided on either side of the stage, a slow-sweep pure-wave oscillator slowly ascends throughout the entire seven-octave range of the...
Continue[+]
Panorama
Released: 1997
Label: N\A
Released: 1997
Label: N\A
Four innovative and intriguing works based on the poetry of physical phenomena. Wind Shadows (1994) for two pure wave oscillators and trombonist, in which exacting tuning modulations (three cycles...
Continue[+]
I Am Sitting in a Room
Released: 1990
Label: N\A
Released: 1990
Label: N\A
"I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now." So begins one of the masterpieces of 20th century music merging processed music, minimalism, and self-reference into an utterly...
Continue[+]
