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Alvin Lucier (1931-     )

Alvin Lucier, composerA trailblazing force in psycho-acoustic music, avant-garde composer and performer Alvin Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire. He was educated at Yale and Brandeis, and also spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship before returning to Brandeis in 1962 to teach and conduct the university's chamber chorus. His breakthrough composition, Music for Solo Performer (1964-1965) for Enormously Amplified Brain Waves and Percussion, was the first work to feature sounds generated by brain waves in live performance; biological stimuli played an increasing role in Lucier's subsequent work as well, most notably through his notation of performers' physical movements. Acoustical phenomena, meanwhile, was the subject of of Lucier's landmark work I Am Sitting in a Room (1970), in which several sentences of recorded speech were simultaneously played back into a room and re-recorded there dozens of times over, the space gradually filtering the speech into pure sound. Music on a Long Thin Wire (1980) was a further extension of Lucier's fascination with the physics of sound -- a conceptual piece featuring a taut 50-foot wire passed through the poles of a large magnet and driven by an oscillator, the amplified vibrations yielded beautifully ethereal results. A professor at Wesleyan University since 1970, Lucier's later works additionally included a number of sound installations as well as works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra.
-  Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

COMPOSITIONS                                                            Lucier Links     ~ ~ ~     Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Lucier on Lucier
Kyrie, young women's voices with organ accompaniment (1952)
Sonatina, piano (1953)
Concertino, oboe and string orchestra (1953)
Partita, soprano and string trio (1954, withdrawn)
Arioso and Allegro, piano (1955)
Sonata da camera, brass and percussion (1956)
I Sing of a Maiden, soprano and instrumental ensemble (1958)
Dr. Faustus, incidental music (1958) [Christopher Marlowe]
The Maids, incidental music (1959) [Jean Genet]
Fragments for strings, string quartet (1961)
The Witch, female voice and 3 percussionists (1961)
Elegy for Albert Anastasia, electromagnetic tape - very low sounds mostly below human audibility (1962-65)
Action Music, Book 1, piano (1962)
Song, soprano (1962)
That the Night Come, 5 voices (1962, unfinished sketch)
Poem, string quartet (1963)
Composition for Pianist and Mother (1964)
Mafia, pianist and 4 assistants (1964)
Music for Solo Performer, for enormously amplified brain waves and percussion (1965)
The Waters of Babylon, incidental music (1965) [John Arden]
Whistlers, recordings of ionospheric disturbances and electronics (1967, withdrawn)
Shelter, vibration pickups, amplification system and enclosed space (1967)
North American Time Capsule, voices and vocoder (1967)
Antigone, incidental music (1967) [Sophocles]
Philoctetes, TV score (1967) [Sophocles]
Shelter 9999, film score (1967) [dir. Takahiko Iimura]
Chambers, moving large and small resonant environments (1968)
Vespers, acoustic orientation by means of echolocation, for players with hand-held echolocation devices (1968)
White Calligraphy, film score (1968) [dir. Takahiko Iimura]
The Only Talking Machine of Its Kind in the World, speaker and tape delay system (1969)
fire!, incidental music (1969) [John Roc]
King Henry V, incidental music (1969) [Shakespeare]
Circles, film score (1969) [dir. Takahiko Iimura]
Hymn, amplification of live sculptural activities (1970)
(Hartford) Memory Space, for any number of instrumental players with recordings of environmental sounds (1970)
"I am sitting in a room", voice and electromagnetic tape (1970)
Quasimodo the Great Lover, for relays of amplification systems (1970)
The Duke of York, voices and synthesizers (1971)
Gentle Fire, any number of synthesizers (1971)
The Queen of the South, players, responsive surfaces, strewn material and closed-circuit television systems (1972)
RMSIM 1, The Bird of Bremen Flies Through the Houses of the Burghers, computer-controlled sound environment (1972)
World Music System, bowed string instruments (1972)
The Fires in the Minds of the Dancers, movement of 8 sound effects in a quadrophonic playback environment (1974)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, singers, players, dancers and unattended percussion (1973-74)
    [new version for female voice, clarinet, flute, horn, mallet instruments, string quartet and pure wave oscillators, 1984]
Outlines of Persons and Things, microphones, loudspeakers and electronic sounds (1975)
Bird and Person Dyning, performer with microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers and electronic birdcall (1975)
Tyndall Orchestrations, female voice, sensitive flame, players w/bunsen burners & glass tubes, & recorded birdcalls (1976)
Music on a Long Thin Wire, sound installation, for audio oscillator and electronic monochord (1977)
Directions of Sounds from the Bridge, stringed instrument, audio oscillator & sound-sensitive lights (1978)
        [sound installation and performance]
Ghosts, audio oscillator, loudspeakers and performer with sound-sensitive light (1978)
Clocker, performer w/galvanic skin response sensor, audio digital delay system, amplified clock & small loudspeakers (1978)
Solar Sounder I, sound installation powered & controlled by sunlight (1979) [in collab. w/electronic designer John Fullemann]
Shapes of the Sounds from the Board, piano (1979)
Job's Coffin, amplified chest of drawers (1980)
Lullaby (for Amanda), solo voice, unamplified or amplified (1980)
Words on Windy Corners, voices, tape delay system and moving loudspeakers (1980)
Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums, slow sweep oscillator, loudspeakers, bass drums & suspended
    ping pong balls (1980) [sound installation and performance]
Reflections of Sound from the Wall, audio oscillator and moving wall (1980)
Sferics, large-loop antennas, tape recorder & plybk system (1981)[sound installation & recordings of ionospheric disturbances]
Risonanza, 3 players and resonant object (1982)
Music for Alpha Waves, Assorted Percussion, and Automated Coded Relays (1982)
Crossings, small orchestra, with slow sweep pure wave oscillator (1982)
Intervals, chorus and sound-sensitive lights (1983)
Seesaw, sound installation, one fixed and one slow sweep pure wave oscillator (1983)
Eleven Solos and a Duet, female voice, clarinet, flute, horn, mallet instruments and string quartet (1984)
Spinner (1984) sound installation, 6 closely tuned pure wave oscillators (1984)
In Memoriam Jon Higgins, clarinet and pure wave oscillator (1984)
Serenade, 13 winds and pure wave oscillators (1985)
Septet, 3 winds, 4 strings and pure wave oscillators (1985)
Precious Metals, brass and pure wave oscillators (1985, work-in-progress)
Sound on Paper, sound installation or performance, framed paper, loudspeakers and audio oscillator (1985)
A Tribute to James Tenney, double bass and pure wave oscillators (1986)
Kettles, 5 timpani and 2 pure wave oscillators (1987)
RPM's, [????] (1987) [for Kenneth Levy on his 60th birthday]
Fideliotrio, viola, cello and piano (1987)
Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra, amplified triangle (1988)
Attaché Case, audio tape (1988) [Metro North, New Haven to and from New York]
Carbon Copies, saxophone, piano, percussion and environmental recordings (1989)
Clackers and Swoopers, 3 fire engine sirens and dancers with blocks of wood (1989)
Self-Portrait, flute and wind anemometer (1989)
Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator, and One or More Reflective Surfaces (1990)
Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever), piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system (1990)
Berlin is a Resonant City, sound installation (1991)
Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels (1991)
Amplifier and Reflector One, for open umbrella, roasting pan and amplified clock (1991)
Possible Time and Motion Reversals, 5 players and 2 pure wave oscillators (1991, work-in-progress)
Navigations for Strings, string quartet (1992)
Letters, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1992)
Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums (1992)
Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1992)
Six Geometries, chorus with slow sweep pure wave oscillators (1992)
Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases (1992)
Three Wall Drawings, string trio (1993, work-in-progress)
Stacks, trombone (1993) [site-specific work; sculpture by Richard Serra, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut]
Music for Piano with Half-closed Lid, sound installation or performance with dancers (1993)
In Memoriam Stuart Marshall, bass clarinet and pure wave oscillator (1993)
Serenade, oboe and string quartet (1993) [1995?]
Music for Baritone with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
Music for Soprano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
Indian Summer, electronic cello (1993)
Panorama, trombone and piano (1993)
Music for Accordion with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
Childrens' Games, incidental music (1993) [Dick Wheeler]
Serenade, sound installation (1994) [in collaboration with the sculptor Trimpin]
Wind Shadows, trombone with closely tuned pure wave oscillators (1994)
Distant Drums, amplified percussion (1994)
Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers (1994)
Disappearances, string quartet (1994)
The Sacred Fox, voice with gourds, bowls, boxes and other resonant vessels (1994)
Spira Mirabilis, bass sustaining instrument and electric light (1994)
Spider Paths, extended lute (1994)
Two Stones, performer with two pieces of basalt (1994)
UNAMUNO, 4 equal voices (1994)
Night Sounds with Flame, recorded bird calls and sensitive flame (1994)
Sierpinski Lines, alto saxophone and twelve strings (1994)
Hands, organ with one or more players (1994)
Theme, voices and sonorous vessels (1994) [on poems of John Ashbery]
Chinese Space, incidental music (1994) [in collab. w/poet Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and sculptor Richard Tuttle]
Skin, Meat, Bone, incid. music (1994) [the Wesleyan Project] [in collab. w/actor Keith McDermott and director Robert Wilson]
Still Lives, piano and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (1995)
Q, violin, clarinet, cello, trombone, double bass and sine waves (1996)
40 Rooms, quintet and LARES System (1996)
Two Twenty-Two, violin, clarinet, trombone, cello and double bass (1996) [a birthday memo for Jean Shaw]
Non, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, cello, electric guitar and double bass (1996)
Sizzles, organ and drums with fine strewn material (1997)
I Remember, chorus with resonant objects (1997)
Sweepers, orchestra (1997)
Small Waves, string quartet, trombone, piano and 2 dancers with 6 partially filled water containers (1997)
Opera with Objects, performer(s) with resonant objects (1997) [composed for Sam Ashley]
Rare Books, [????] (1997) [dedicated to Elizabeth Swaim]
Wave Songs, female voice and pure wave oscillators (1998) ["Wave Painting Songs"]
Cassiopeia, Five Stars in the Shape of a "W", orchestra (1999)
Diamonds, for One, Two or Three Orchestras (1999)
Heavier Than Air, for any number of players with carbon dioxide filled balloons (1999)
What Day Is Today?, tape (1999) [8 short wks, on natural radio waves & data from the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter,
    Venus, and Saturn]
On a carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon, koto with pure wave oscillator (2000)
Fruits and Vegetables, baritone voice and piano (2000)
Piper, bagpipe (2000)
947, flute and pure wave oscillators (2001)
Theme, 4 readers with amplified sonorous vessels (2001?)
Ever Present, flute, saxophone, piano and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (2002)
Almost New York, 5 flutes (1 player) and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (2002)
Coda Variations, 6-valve tuba [tuning in just intonation] (2005)
Broken Line, flute, vibraphone and piano (2006)
Twonings, cello and piano (2006)
Icecles, alto flute, clarinet, tuba and piano (2010)
Four Kettledrums,  4 timpani (4 players) (2010)


WORKS BY GENRE                                                            Lucier Links    ~ ~ ~    Lucier on Lucier      ~ top of page ~
Dramatic/Theater
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, singers, players, dancers and unattended percussion (1973-74)
    [new version for female voice, clarinet, flute, horn, mallet instruments, string quartet and pure wave oscillators, 1984]
Clackers and Swoopers, 3 fire engine sirens and dancers with blocks of wood (1989)
Music for Piano with Half-closed Lid, sound installation or performance with dancers (1993)
Small Waves, string quartet, trombone, piano and 2 dancers with 6 partially filled water containers (1997)
Opera with Objects, performer(s) with resonant objects (1997) [composed for Sam Ashley]

Orchestra
Crossings, small orchestra, with slow sweep pure wave oscillator (1982)
Sweepers, orchestra (1997)
Cassiopeia, Five Stars in the Shape of a "W", orchestra (1999)
Diamonds, for One, Two or Three Orchestras (1999)

Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
Concertino, oboe and string orchestra (1953)
Sierpinski Lines, alto saxophone and twelve strings (1994)

Choral
Kyrie, young women's voices with organ accompaniment (1952)
Intervals, chorus and sound-sensitive lights (1983)
Six Geometries, chorus with slow sweep pure wave oscillators (1992)
I Remember, chorus with resonant objects (1997)

Chamber
Sonata da camera, brass and percussion (1956)
Fragments for strings, string quartet (1961)
Poem, string quartet (1963)
(Hartford) Memory Space, for any number of instrumental players with recordings of environmental sounds (1970)
World Music System, bowed string instruments (1972)
Risonanza, 3 players and resonant object (1982)
Music for Alpha Waves, Assorted Percussion, and Automated Coded Relays (1982)
Eleven Solos and a Duet, female voice, clarinet, flute, horn, mallet instruments and string quartet (1984)
Serenade, 13 winds and pure wave oscillators (1985)
Septet, 3 winds, 4 strings and pure wave oscillators (1985)
Precious Metals, brass and pure wave oscillators (1985, work-in-progress)
Fideliotrio, viola, cello and piano (1987)
Carbon Copies, saxophone, piano, percussion and environmental recordings (1989)
Clackers and Swoopers, 3 fire engine sirens and dancers with blocks of wood (1989)
Possible Time and Motion Reversals, 5 players and 2 pure wave oscillators (1991, work-in-progress)
Navigations for Strings, string quartet (1992)
Letters, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1992)
Three Wall Drawings, string trio (1993, work-in-progress)
Serenade, oboe and string quartet (1993) [1995?]
Panorama, trombone and piano (1993)
Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers (1994)
Disappearances, string quartet (1994)
Sierpinski Lines, alto saxophone and twelve strings (1994)
Q, violin, clarinet, cello, trombone, double bass and sine waves (1996)
40 Rooms, quintet and LARES System (1996)
Two Twenty-Two, violin, clarinet, trombone, cello and double bass (1996) [a birthday memo for Jean Shaw]
Non, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, cello, electric guitar and double bass (1996)
Sizzles, organ and drums with fine strewn material (1997)
Small Waves, string quartet, trombone, piano and 2 dancers with 6 partially filled water containers (1997)
Opera with Objects, performer(s) with resonant objects (1997) [composed for Sam Ashley]
Heavier Than Air, for any number of players with carbon dioxide filled balloons (1999)
Theme, 4 readers with amplified sonorous vessels (2001?)
Ever Present, flute, saxophone, piano and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (2002)
Broken Line, flute, vibraphone and piano (2006)
Twonings, cello and piano (2006)
Icecles, alto flute, clarinet, tuba and piano (2010)
Four Kettledrums,  4 timpani (4 players) (2010)

Percussion
Sonata da camera, brass and percussion (1956)
The Witch, female voice and 3 percussionists (1961)
Music for Solo Performer, for enormously amplified brain waves and percussion (1965)
Music for Alpha Waves, Assorted Percussion, and Automated Coded Relays (1982)
Kettles, 5 timpani and 2 pure wave oscillators (1987)
Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra, amplified triangle (1988)
Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator, and One or More Reflective Surfaces (1990)
Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums (1992)
Distant Drums, amplified percussion (1994)
Opera with Objects, performer(s) with resonant objects (1997) [composed for Sam Ashley]
Sizzles, organ and drums with fine strewn material (1997)
Four Kettledrums,  4 timpani (4 players) (2010)

Solo Instrument
In Memoriam Jon Higgins, clarinet and pure wave oscillator (1984)
A Tribute to James Tenney, double bass and pure wave oscillators (1986)
Kettles, 5 timpani and 2 pure wave oscillators (1987)
Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra, amplified triangle (1988)
Self-Portrait, flute and wind anemometer (1989)
Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator, and One or More Reflective Surfaces (1990)
Amplifier and Reflector One, for open umbrella, roasting pan and amplified clock (1991)
Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases (1992)
Stacks, trombone (1993) [site-specific work; sculpture by Richard Serra, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut]
In Memoriam Stuart Marshall, bass clarinet and pure wave oscillator (1993)
Indian Summer, electronic cello (1993)
Music for Accordion with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
Wind Shadows, trombone with closely tuned pure wave oscillators (1994)
Distant Drums, amplified percussion (1994)
Spira Mirabilis, bass sustaining instrument and electric light (1994)
Spider Paths, extended lute (1994)
Two Stones, performer with two pieces of basalt (1994)
Opera with Objects, performer(s) with resonant objects (1997) [composed for Sam Ashley]
On a carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon, koto with pure wave oscillator (2000)
Piper, bagpipe (2000)
947, flute and pure wave oscillators (2001)
Almost New York, 5 flutes (1 player) and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (2002)
Coda Variations, 6-valve tuba [tuning in just intonation] (2005)

Piano/Organ
Sonatina, piano (1953)
Arioso and Allegro, piano (1955)
Action Music, Book 1, piano (1962)
Composition for Pianist and Mother (1964)
Mafia, pianist and 4 assistants (1964)
Shapes of the Sounds from the Board, piano (1979)
Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever), piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system (1990)
Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels (1991)
Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums (1992)
Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1992)
Music for Piano with Half-closed Lid, sound installation or performance with dancers (1993)
Hands, organ with one or more players (1994)
Still Lives, piano and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (1995)
Sizzles, organ and drums with fine strewn material (1997)

Vocal
Partita, soprano and string trio (1954, withdrawn)
I Sing of a Maiden, soprano and instrumental ensemble (1958)
The Witch, female voice and 3 percussionists (1961)
Song, soprano (1962)
That the Night Come, 5 voices (1962, unfinished sketch)
North American Time Capsule, voices and vocoder (1967)
The Only Talking Machine of Its Kind in the World, speaker and tape delay system (1969)
"I am sitting in a room", voice and electromagnetic tape (1970)
The Duke of York, voices and synthesizers (1971)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, singers, players, dancers and unattended percussion (1973-74)
    [new version for female voice, clarinet, flute, horn, mallet instruments, string quartet and pure wave oscillators, 1984]
Tyndall Orchestrations, female voice, sensitive flame, players w/bunsen burners & glass tubes, & recorded birdcalls (1976)
Lullaby (for Amanda), solo voice, unamplified or amplified (1980)
Words on Windy Corners, voices, tape delay system and moving loudspeakers (1980)
Eleven Solos and a Duet, female voice, clarinet, flute, horn, mallet instruments and string quartet (1984)
Music for Baritone with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
Music for Soprano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
The Sacred Fox, voice with gourds, bowls, boxes and other resonant vessels (1994)
UNAMUNO, 4 equal voices (1994)
Theme, voices and sonorous vessels (1994) [on poems of John Ashbery]
Wave Songs, female voice and pure wave oscillators (1998) ["Wave Painting Songs"]
Fruits and Vegetables, baritone voice and piano (2000)
Theme, 4 readers with amplified sonorous vessels (2001?)

Incidental
Dr. Faustus, incidental music (1958) [Christopher Marlowe]
The Maids, incidental music (1959) [Jean Genet]
The Waters of Babylon, incidental music (1965) [John Arden]
Antigone, incidental music (1967) [Sophocles]
fire!, incidental music (1969) [John Roc]
King Henry V, incidental music (1969) [Shakespeare]
Childrens' Games, incidental music (1993) [Dick Wheeler]
Chinese Space, incidental music (1994) [in collab. w/poet Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and sculptor Richard Tuttle]
Skin, Meat, Bone, incid. music (1994) [the Wesleyan Project] [in collab. w/actor Keith McDermott and director Robert Wilson]

Film/TV

Philoctetes, TV score (1967) [Sophocles]
Shelter 9999, film score (1967) [dir. Takahiko Iimura]
White Calligraphy, film score (1968) [dir. Takahiko Iimura]
Circles, film score (1969) [dir. Takahiko Iimura]

Electronic
Elegy for Albert Anastasia, electromagnetic tape - very low sounds mostly below human audibility (1962-65)
Music for Solo Performer, for enormously amplified brain waves and percussion (1965)
Whistlers, recordings of ionospheric disturbances and electronics (1967, withdrawn)
Shelter, vibration pickups, amplification system and enclosed space (1967)
North American Time Capsule, voices and vocoder (1967)
Chambers, moving large and small resonant environments (1968)
Vespers, acoustic orientation by means of echolocation, for players with hand-held echolocation devices (1968)
The Only Talking Machine of Its Kind in the World, speaker and tape delay system (1969)
Hymn, amplification of live sculptural activities (1970)
"I am sitting in a room", voice and electromagnetic tape (1970)
Quasimodo the Great Lover, for relays of amplification systems (1970)
The Duke of York, voices and synthesizers (1971)
Gentle Fire, any number of synthesizers (1971)
The Queen of the South, players, responsive surfaces, strewn material and closed-circuit television systems (1972)
RMSIM 1, The Bird of Bremen Flies Through the Houses of the Burghers, computer-controlled sound environment (1972)
The Fires in the Minds of the Dancers, movement of 8 sound effects in a quadrophonic playback environment (1974)
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, singers, players, dancers and unattended percussion (1973-74)
    [new version for female voice, clarinet, flute, horn, mallet instruments, string quartet and pure wave oscillators, 1984]
Outlines of Persons and Things, microphones, loudspeakers and electronic sounds (1975)
Bird and Person Dyning, performer with microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers and electronic birdcall (1975)
Ghosts, audio oscillator, loudspeakers and performer with sound-sensitive light (1978)
Clocker, performer w/galvanic skin response sensor, audio digital delay system, amplified clock & small loudspeakers (1978)
Job's Coffin, amplified chest of drawers (1980)
Lullaby (for Amanda), solo voice, unamplified or amplified (1980)
Words on Windy Corners, voices, tape delay system and moving loudspeakers (1980)
Reflections of Sound from the Wall, audio oscillator and moving wall (1980)
Music for Alpha Waves, Assorted Percussion, and Automated Coded Relays (1982)
Crossings, small orchestra, with slow sweep pure wave oscillator (1982)
Intervals, chorus and sound-sensitive lights (1983)
In Memoriam Jon Higgins, clarinet and pure wave oscillator (1984)
Serenade, 13 winds and pure wave oscillators (1985)
Septet, 3 winds, 4 strings and pure wave oscillators (1985)
Precious Metals, brass and pure wave oscillators (1985, work-in-progress)
A Tribute to James Tenney, double bass and pure wave oscillators (1986)
Kettles, 5 timpani and 2 pure wave oscillators (1987)
Attaché Case, audio tape (1988) [Metro North, New Haven to and from New York]
Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillator, and One or More Reflective Surfaces (1990)
Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever), piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system (1990)
Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels (1991)
Amplifier and Reflector One, for open umbrella, roasting pan and amplified clock (1991)
Possible Time and Motion Reversals, 5 players and 2 pure wave oscillators (1991, work-in-progress)
Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1992)
Six Geometries, chorus with slow sweep pure wave oscillators (1992)
Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases (1992)
In Memoriam Stuart Marshall, bass clarinet and pure wave oscillator (1993)
Music for Baritone with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
Music for Soprano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
Music for Accordion with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators (1993)
Wind Shadows, trombone with closely tuned pure wave oscillators (1994)
Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers (1994)
Night Sounds with Flame, recorded bird calls and sensitive flame (1994)
Still Lives, piano and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (1995)
Q, quintet and pure wave oscillators (1996)
40 Rooms, quintet and LARES System (1996)
Q, violin, clarinet, cello, trombone, double bass and sine waves (1996)
Wave Songs, female voice and pure wave oscillators (1998) ["Wave Painting Songs"]
What Day Is Today?, tape (1999) [8 short wks, on natural radio waves & data from the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter,
    Venus, and Saturn]
On a carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon, koto with pure wave oscillator (2000)
947, flute and pure wave oscillators (2001)
Ever Present, flute, saxophone, piano and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (2002)
Almost New York, 5 flutes (1 player) and slow sweep pure wave oscillators (2002)

Sound Installation
Music on a Long Thin Wire, sound installation, for audio oscillator and electronic monochord (1977)
Directions of Sounds from the Bridge, stringed instrument, audio oscillator & sound-sensitive lights (1978)
        [sound installation and performance]
Solar Sounder I, sound installation powered & controlled by sunlight (1979) [in collab. w/electronic designer John Fullemann]
Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums, slow sweep oscillator, loudspeakers, bass drums & suspended
    ping pong balls (1980) [sound installation and performance]
Sferics, large-loop antennas, tape recorder & plybk system (1981)[sound installation & recordings of ionospheric disturbances]
Seesaw, sound installation, one fixed and one slow sweep pure wave oscillator (1983)
Spinner (1984) sound installation, 6 closely tuned pure wave oscillators (1984)
Sound on Paper, sound installation or performance, framed paper, loudspeakers and audio oscillator (1985)
Berlin is a Resonant City, sound installation (1991)
Music for Piano with Half-closed Lid, sound installation or performance with dancers (1993)
Serenade, sound installation (1994) [in collaboration with the sculptor Trimpin]


RPM's, [????] (1987) [for Kenneth Levy on his 60th birthday]
Rare Books, [????] (1997) [dedicated to Elizabeth Swaim]


LUCIER  LINKS                                                            Works by Genre    ~ ~ ~    Lucier on Lucier     ~ top of page ~
Alvin Lucier in Conversation with Thomas Moore (Thomas Moore, UMBC/Thomas Moore)
Alvin Lucier Interview with Arne Deforce (arnedeforce.be)
Alvin Lucier on "Music On A Long Thin Wire" (Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever)
Can Orchestral Music and Electronic Sound Comfortably Coexist? (Alvin Lucier, NewMusicBox)
Gentle Fire (The Domestic Soundscape)
Interpreting Alvin Lucier: Process, Economy and Perception (Christopher Burns, Peck School of the Arts)
Interviews: Anton Rovner with Alvin Lucier (musica-ukrainica.odessa.ua)
The Music of Alvin Lucier (Thomas DeLioa, Informaworld)
Sitting in a Room with Alvin Lucier (Frank J. Oteri, NewMusicBox)    also    here
Sounds Heard: Alvin Lucier - Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (Molly Sheridan, NewMusicBox)
Thoughts on Installations (Alvin Lucier, kunstradio.at)

Composer's website        . . . contact Alvin Lucier: alucier(at)wesleyan.edu

Lucier @ Wikipedia
Lucier @ Answers.com
Lucier @ Atlantic Center for the Arts
Lucier @ CDeMusic
Lucier @ Center for New Music & Audio Technologies/UC Berkeley
Lucier @ ClassicsToday
Lucier @ composition:today
Lucier @ Domestic Soundscape
Lucier @ Dusted Reviews
Lucier @ The Ensemble Sospeso
Lucier @ Facebook
Lucier @ InstantEncore
Lucier @ ISSUE Project Room
Lucier @ Lovely Music
Lucier @ Mode Records
Lucier @ MusicBrainz
Lucier @ MusicWeb International
Lucier @ MySpaceMusic
Lucier @ National University of Singapore/MUT3201
Lucier @ Networked Music Review
Lucier @ New World Records    also    here
Lucier @ The New York Times
Lucier @ NNDB
Lucier @ Ostrava Center for New Music
Lucier @ The Other Listening Room
Lucier @ Other Minds
Lucier @ Piero Scaruffi
Lucier @ Scorescapes
Lucier @ University of Akron: Sylvia Smith Archives
Lucier @ Wesleyan University

Publisher
Lucier @ BMI Canada
Lucier @ Material Press
Lucier @ Wesleyan University Press

Streaming Audio
Lucier @ Composer's website
Lucier @ AAIR.FM/Architectural Association Independent Radio
Lucier @ Internet Archive/Community Audio
Lucier @ Internet Archive/radiOM    also    here
Lucier @ last.fm
Lucier @ MySpaceMusic
Lucier @ Other Minds
Lucier @ Rhapsody
Lucier @ UbuWeb

Recordings
Lucier @ Composer's website
Lucier @ ArkivMusic
Lucier @ CDeMusic
Lucier @ ClassicsOnline
Lucier @ Discogs
Lucier @ Forced Exposure
Lucier @ Lovely Music
Lucier @ Mode Records
Lucier @ New World Records

Video
Lucier @ YouTube
Lucier @ Google Video
Lucier @ Vimeo
Lucier @ Donna Marie Eyestone

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Lucier on Lucier: Feet to the Fire - Glacier (VIDEO)










Lucier on Lucier: Music with Roots in the Ether (VIDEO)







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