Alvin Lucier: Reflections

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Contents

 

Prefaces

  • Pauline Oliveros: Poet of Electronic Music
  • James Tenney: The Eloquent Voice of Nature

Interviews with Douglas Simon

  • “. . . to let alpha be itself”. Music for Solo Performer
  • “. . . and listen to the ocean again”. Chambers
  • Taking Slow Audio Photographs of the Space. Vespers
  • “Every room has its own melody”. “I am sitting in a room”
  • Imitating One Set of Sounds with Another. (Hartford) Memory Space
  • A Metaphor for One’s Life. Quasimodo the Great Lover
  • Composite Identities. The Duke of York
  • Imaginary Imagery. Gentle Fire
  • Seeing Sound. The Queen of the South, Tyndall Orchestrations
  • Making Audible That Which Is Inaudible. Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
  • “Do you know how robins turn their heads to listen?” Outlines of Persons and Things, Bird and Person Dyning
  • The Poetry of Science. Music on a Long Thin Wire
  • Sound Shadows. Directions of Sounds from the Bridge

Interviews with Daniel Wolf

  • “The gods appear out of nowhere”. Crossings, Nothing is Real
  • “The sound melts into the environment”. Fragments for Strings, Navigations for Strings
  • “The simple is the difficult”. Panorama, Six Geometries

Conversations

  • “Creating a new kind of a music for me” (Barney Childs)
  • “. . . when you stutter, you scan the language” (Walter Zimmermann)
  • “With and without a purpose” (Robert Ashley)
  • “Discovery is part of the experience” (William Duckworth)
  • “I’m cutting things down to their simplest form” (James Tenney)
  • “The form of the piece is a search” (Arne Deforce)
  • “You never know what’s going to happen” (James Saunders)

About Own Work

  • Music for Solo Performer 1965
  • The Making of North American Time Capsule
  • Program Proposal for Pepsi-Cola Pavilion
  • The Propagation of Sound in Space
  • The Tools of My Trade
  • Clocker
  • Sferics
  • Seesaw
  • Wall with Vertical Slit
  • Sound on Paper
  • Pasta for Tired Dancers
  • Thoughts on Installations
  • Skin, Meat, Bone
  • String Quartets
  • Origins of a Form
  • My Affairs with Feedback
  • Fruits and Vegetables

About Others    

  • A Letter to Frederic Rzewski
  • An Open Letter to the Artistic Director of the Ojai Music Festival
  • I Remember Morty
  • Collaborations with John Cage
  • Soba
  • The Sonic Arts Union
  • Avant-garde and Experiment
  • The Future of Our Music
  • Preface to Robert Ashley’s book Outside of Time
  • Notes on Verbal Notation
  • The Local is the Universal
  • In Memoriam David Tudor, Robert Ashley, Reinhard Oehlschlägel, Pauline Oliveros                                     

Scores      

  • Music for Solo Performer
  • Shelter
  • Chambers
  • Vespers
  • The Only Talking Machine of Its Kind in the World
  • “I am sitting in a room”
  • (Hartford) Memory Space
  • Hymn
  • Quasimodo the Great Lover
  • The Duke of York
  • Gentle Fire
  • The Queen of the South
  • Tyndall Orchestrations
  • Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
  • Outlines of Persons and Things
  • Bird and Person Dyning
  • Music on a Long Thin Wire
  • Directions of Sounds from the Bridge
  • Ghosts
  • Words on Windy Corners
  • Lullaby
  • Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums                                                                  
  • Risonanza
  • Precious Metals
  • Attaché Case
  • Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
  • Carbon Copies
  • Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillators and One or More Reflective Surfaces
  • Indian Summer
  • Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases
  • Music for Piano with Half-closed Lid
  • Empty Vessels

Program and Liner Notes

  • Partita, Fragments for Strings, Action Music
  • Music for Solo Performer
  • Vespers
  • (Hartford) Memory Space
  • “I am sitting in a room”
  • Quasimodo the Great Lover
  • The Queen of the South
  • RMSIM 1
  • Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
  • Bird and Person Dyning
  • Music on a Long Thin Wire
  • Shapes of the Sounds from the Board
  • Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums                                                                  
  • Sferics
  • Crossings
  • Seesaw
  • Spinner
  • In Memoriam Jon Higgins
  • Serenade (1985)
  • Septet
  • Homage to James Tenney
  • Kettles
  • Fideliotrio
  • Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
  • Self-Portrait
  • Nothing Is Real
  • Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels
  • Amplifier and Reflector One
  • Navigations for Strings
  • Possible Time and Motion Reversals
  • Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums
  • Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators
  • Six Geometries
  • Sol 432
  • StacksMusic for Piano with Half-closed Lid
  • In Memoriam Stuart Marshall
  • Serenade (1993)
  • Panorama
  • Serenade (1994)
  • Wind Shadows, Distant Drums, Music for Gamelan Instruments Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers
  • Disappearances
  • The Sacred Fox
  • Spira Mirabilis
  • Spider Paths
  • Two Stones
  • Unamuno
  • Night Sounds with Flame
  • Sierpinski Lines
  • Chinese Space
  • Theme
  • Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings
  • Still Lives
  • Sound on Glass
  • Empty Vessels
  • Small Waves
  • Opera with Objects
  • Wave Painting Songs
  • Heavier than Air
  • On a Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon
  • Piper
  • Ovals
  • Almost New York
  • Ever Present
  • Charles Curtis
  • Fan
  • Tapper
  • Coda Variations
  • Man Ray
  • Twonings
  • Broken Line
  • Bumps
  • Slices
  • Trio for Clarinet Cello and Six-valve Tuba
  • Miniature                                                                    
  • ICEcles
  • Check
  • Two Circles
  • Braid
  • Codex
  • Criss Cross
  • Palimpsest
  • Shadow Lines
  • Orpheus Variations
  • Hanover
  • Gondola
  • Audibles
  • Love Song
  • Sickle
  • Double Helix
  • V
  • Flight Paths
  • Tilted Arc
  • Corner Church and High
  • Monteverdi Shapero
  • Halo, Bone Moon
  • Arrigoni Bridge
  • Flips
  • Key West
  • Three Cardboard Boxes

 

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