Alvin Lucier
Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American experimental composer and sound artist. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which also included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of Lucier's work explores psychoacoustic phenomena and the physical properties of sound.
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Top Tracks
- Sound Patterns
- Christian Wolff in Cambridge
- Chorus & Instruments II
- That Morning Thing: She Was a Visitor
- Criss-Cross (excerpt)
- Extended Voices
- Solos for Voice 2
- North American Time Capsule 1967
- Almost New York
- Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators XL
- Panorama
- Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels
- Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums
- Wind Shadows
- Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers
- Theme
- Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings
- Still Lives VIII. Chopsticks
- Still Lives VII. Bread Knife
- Still Lives VI. Ferns
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