Alvin Lucier
American composer of experimental music and sound installations
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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Works
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- 947
- Almost New York
- August Moon
- Chambers
- Charles Curtis
- Diamonds for 1, 2, or 3 Orchestras
- Exploration of the House
- Fragments
- Halo
- I Am Sitting in a Room
- In Memoriam Jon Higgins
- In Memoriam Stuart Marshall
- Love Song
- Music for Cello With One or More Amplified Vases
- Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers
- Music for Piano With Magnetic Strings
- Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums, and Acoustic Pendulums
- Music for Solo Performer
- Music on a Long Thin Wire
- North American Time Capsule
- Nothing Is Real
- Sferics
- Slices
- Sounds on Paper
- Step, Slide and Sustain
- Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, Part I: Number 1
- Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, Part III: Number 11
- Tapper
- Theme
- Trio for Clarinet, Cello & Tuba
- Unamuno
- Vespers
- “On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon”