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1 de dic. de 2021 · Alvin Lucier, John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus, died on Dec. 1 at the age of 90. Lucier received his BA from Yale University and his MFA from Brandeis University. He joined the Wesleyan faculty as a visiting professor in 1968 and as an associate professor in 1972. He taught here for 43 years before retiring in 2011.
Posthumous testament to the peerless vision of Alvin Lucier, split with a work by Jordan Dykstra (Dirty Projectors, Atlas Sound), who also hailed from the same Middletown, CT where Lucier wrote his seminal piece ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’. Linked by locale and a creative friendship forged during Lucier’s final years, the late, great composer and his youthful acolyte speak to a mutual ...
6 de dic. de 2021 · Acclaimed composer Alvin Lucier, who explored the material properties of sound, died last week at the age of 90. While the ‘experimental’ label is often overused, Lucier’s poetic yet scientifically inflected work often comprised actual experiments – whether amplifying his own brain waves, producing auditory maps with echolocation or teasing out the resonant frequencies of enclosed spaces.
Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer (1965), often referred to as the ‘brain wave piece’, has become a key work of experimental music. Its setup, in which the brain waves of a solo performer are made to excite percussion instruments, has given the work a central place in the discourse on artistic sonification.
This extremely delicate and lyrical performance may act as an entrance into the work of Alvin Lucier (born in 1931 in New Hampshire) and his unwavering engagement with how sound travels through the world. Since the mid-1960s, Lucier has produced a range of important compositions that have influenced the culture of experimental music and the ...
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21 de may. de 2013 · Alvin Lucier (*1931): Panorama, for trombone and piano (1993).Roland Dahinden, tromboneHildegard Kleeb, pianoforte."Panorama" In the Spring of 1993, Roland ...
