Reflections

Dieser Band dokumentiert das Schaffen von Alvin Lucier - einer der Schlüsselfiguren der experimentellen Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. In Gesprächen, Essays, Interviews, Prosa-Partituren und Einführungstexten entfaltet sich ein einzigartiges klangliches Universum, das sich um Themen wie Resonanz, Raum, Wahrnehmung und Reduktion dreht. Von Klassikern wie "I am Sitting in a Room" oder "Music for Solo Performer" bis hin zu Installationen, Tagebuchnotizen und Kollaborationen mit John Cage zeigt das Buch, wie Lucier immer wieder die Grenzen des Hörens erweitert hat. Inhalte: Prefaces Pauline Oliveros: Poet of Electronic Music James Tenney: The Eloquent Voice of Nature Interviews with Douglas Simon . . . to let alpha be itself. Music for Solo Performer . . . and listen to the ocean again. Chambers Taking Slow Audio Photographs of the Space. Vespers Every room has its own melody. I am sitting in a room Imitating One Set of Sounds with Another. (Hartford) Memory Space A Metaphor for Ones Life. Quasimodo the Great Lover Composite Identities. The Duke of York Imaginary Imagery. Gentle Fire Seeing Sound. The Queen of the South, Tyndall Orchestrations Making Audible That Which Is Inaudible. Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas Do you know how robins turn their heads to listen? Outlines of Persons and Things, Bird and Person Dyning The Poetry of Science. Music on a Long Thin Wire Sound Shadows. Directions of Sounds from the Bridge Interviews with Daniel Wolf The gods appear out of nowhere. Crossings, Nothing is Real The sound melts into the environment. Fragments for Strings, Navigations for Strings The simple is the difficult. Panorama, Six Geometries Conversations Creating a new kind of a music for me (Barney Childs) . . . when you stutter, you scan the language (Walter Zimmermann) With and without a purpose (Robert Ashley) Discovery is part of the experience (William Duckworth) Im cutting things down to their simplest form (James Tenney) The form of the piece is a search (Arne Deforce) You never know whats going to happen (James Saunders) About Own Work Music for Solo Performer 1965 The Making of North American Time Capsule Program Proposal for Pepsi-Cola Pavilion The Propagation of Sound in Space The Tools of My Trade Clocker Sferics Seesaw Wall with Vertical Slit Sound on Paper Pasta for Tired Dancers Thoughts on Installations Skin, Meat, Bone String Quartets Origins of a Form My Affairs with Feedback Fruits and Vegetables About Others A Letter to Frederic Rzewski An Open Letter to the Artistic Director of the Ojai Music Festival I Remember Morty Collaborations with John Cage Soba The Sonic Arts Union Avant-garde and Experiment The Future of Our Music Preface to Robert Ashleys book Outside of Time Notes on Verbal Notation The Local is the Universal In Memoriam David Tudor, Robert Ashley, Reinhard Oehlschlägel, Pauline Oliveros Scores Music for Solo Performer Shelter Chambers Vespers The Only Talking Machine of Its Kind in the World I am sitting in a room (Hartford) Memory Space Hymn Quasimodo the Great Lover The Duke of York Gentle Fire The Queen of the South Tyndall Orchestrations Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas Outlines of Persons and Things Bird and Person Dyning Music on a Long Thin Wire Directions of Sounds from the Bridge Ghosts Words on Windy Corners Lullaby Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums Risonanza Precious Metals Attaché Case Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra Carbon Copies Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillators and One or More Reflective Surfaces Indian Summer Music for Cello with One or More Amplified Vases Music for Piano with Half-closed Lid Empty Vessels Program and Liner Notes Partita, Fragments for Strings, Action Music Music for Solo Performer Vespers (Hartford) Memory Space I am sitting in a room Quasimodo the Great Lover The Queen of the South RMSIM 1 Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas Bird and Person Dyning Music on a Long Thin Wire Shapes of the Sounds from the Board Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums and Acoustic Pendulums Sferics Crossings Seesaw Spinner In Memoriam Jon Higgins Serenade (1985) Septet Homage to James Tenney Kettles Fideliotrio Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra Self-Portrait Nothing Is Real Music for Piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels Amplifier and Reflector One Navigations for Strings Possible Time and Motion Reversals Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators Six Geometries Sol 432 StacksMusic for Piano with Half-closed Lid In Memoriam Stuart Marshall Serenade (1993) Panorama Serenade (1994) Wind Shadows, Distant Drums, Music for Gamelan Instruments Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers Disappearances The Sacred Fox Spira Mirabilis Spider Paths Two Stones Unamuno Night Sounds with Flame Sierpinski Lines Chinese Space Theme Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings Still Lives Sound on Glass Empty Vessels Small Waves Opera with Objects Wave Painting Songs Heavier than Air On a Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon Piper Ovals Almost New York Ever Present Charles Curtis Fan Tapper Coda Variations Man Ray Twonings Broken Line Bumps Slices Trio for Clarinet Cello and Six-valve Tuba Miniature ICEcles Check Two Circles Braid Codex Criss Cross Palimpsest Shadow Lines Orpheus Variations Hanover Gondola Audibles Love Song Sickle Double Helix V Flight Paths Tilted Arc Corner Church and High Monteverdi Shapero Halo, Bone Moon Arrigoni Bridge Flips Key West Three Cardboard Boxes List of Works Text Credits Photo Credits Index of Names