Alvin Lucier
Birthday: 1931-05-14
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Biography: Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media. (Source: Wikipedia)
Movies
New Music: Sounds and Voices from the Avant-Garde New York 1971
With participation of John Cage, Earle Brown, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, David Behrman, Max Neuhaus,...
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Cry Dr. Chicago
The premise of the Dr. Chicago feature film trilogy is that Dr. Chicago (Alvin Lucier), a sex-change...
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Ride Dr. Chicago Ride
From George Manupelli's Doctor Chicago trilogy, starring Alvin Lucier as the evil (and politically i...
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A Tribute to John Cage
A Tribute to John Cage is Paik's homage to avant-garde composer John Cage. A major figure in contemp...
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No Ideas But in Things - the composer Alvin Lucier
“Don’t ask me what I mean, ask me what I’ve made” – inspired by this motto, the documentary accompan...
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Music with Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television by Robert Ashley
In 1975 the composer Robert Ashley embarked on an ambitious work titled Music With Roots in the Aeth...
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I Am Sitting in a Room
I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece by American composer and sound artist Alvin Lucier compo...
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