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In this brilliant collection, path-breaking figures of American
experimental music discuss the meaning of their work at the turn of
the twenty-first century. Presented between 1989 and 2002 at
Wesleyan University, these captivating lectures provide rare
insights by composers whose work has shaped our understanding of
what it means to be experimental: Maryanne Amacher, Robert Ashley,
Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Steve Reich, James Tenney, Christian
Wolff, and La Monte Young. Collected here for the first time,
together these lectures tell the story of twentieth-century
American experimental music, covering such topics as repetition,
phase, drone, duration, collaboration, and technological
innovation. Containing introductory comments by Lucier and the
original question and answer sessions between the students and the
composers, this book makes the theory and practice of experimental
music available and accessible to a new generation of students,
artists, and scholars.
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Music 109 (Paperback)
Alvin Lucier; Contributions by Robert Ashley
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Composer and peformer Alvin Lucier brings clarity to the world of
experimental music as he takes the reader through more than a
hundred groundbreaking musical works, including those of Robert
Ashley, John Cage, Charles Ives, Morton Feldman, Philip Glass,
Pauline Oliveros, Steve Reich, Christian Wolff, and La Monte Young.
Lucier explains in detail how each piece is made, unlocking secrets
of the composers' style and technique. The book as a whole charts
the progress of American experimental music from the 1950s to the
present, covering such topics as indeterminacy, electronics, and
minimalism, as well as radical innovations in music for the piano,
string quartet, and opera. Clear, approachable and lively, Music
109 is Lucier's indispensable guide to late 20th-century
composition. No previous musical knowledge is required, and all
readers are welcome.
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Alvin Lucier - A Celebration (Paperback, New)
Michael Roth; Edited by Andrea Miller-Keller; Contributions by Alvin Lucier, Ronald Kuivila, Nicolas Collins
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Discovery Miles 4 260
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This small, striking book commemorates the career of experimental
music composer Alvin Lucier, and features an interview with Lucier
and curator Andrea Miller-Keller, essays by Nicolas Collins, Ronald
Kuivila, Michael Roth and Pamela Tatge, and details of a symposium,
exhibit and special performances of Lucier's work held at Wesleyan
University, November 4-6, 2011. Lucier has pioneered in many areas
of music composition and performance, including the notation of
performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live
performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating
media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes.
From 1970 to 2011 he taught at Wesleyan University where he was
John Spencer Camp Professor of Music. Lucier performs, lectures and
exhibits his sound installations extensively in the United States,
Europe and Asia.
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