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	lucier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		"'Music on a Long Thin Wire', from 1977, began as a physics demonstration in a musical acoustics class I was teaching at Wesleyan with physicist John Trefny.
		A horseshoe magnet straddled the wire at one end, causing the wire to vibrate due to the interaction of its flux field and the current flowing through the wire.
	www.ccnoa.org /pages/lucier.html (515 words)

	Long Strings
		Long string instruments have been a popular form of working with the coupling of sound and space as a compositional subject.
		These performances are long, through-composed works incorporating the harmonic-rich sounds of the strings with the explosive sounds possible by "overdriving" the strings, causing them to vibrate against the tiny transducers which pickup the sounds and connect to amplifiers.
		Arnold Dreyblatt, a German music reviewer discussed one of their works in Berlin: "At performances of these 'String Installations', it is often difficult to tell if the audience is 'in' the installation or is looking 'at' it; whether the performers are playing 'on' a string 'instrument' or are performing 'in' it.
	eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~kov/soundArt/panGoed.html (1061 words)

	Untitled Document
		In addition to the proposition of this musical ìuniverse,î Lucierís scores include detailed instructions on how to manipulate the elements of his system, giving always an interesting range of flexibility to the performer that allows him or her to broaden the limits of the piece.
		Given that the result of propositional music is sound (one of the Musical Givens according to Rosenboom,) but this sound has to be understood from a different perspective (compared with the traditional perspective from which we listen to most of our repertoire), we are necessarily experiencing a process of anticommunication.
		If Alvin Lucierís music is considered to be propositional, then I would agree with that statement wholeheartedly because if you are not interactive with the music and listening for a series of occurences or events it quickly becomes monotonous noise (Iím referring specifically to Music on a Long Thin Wire).
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/music414/language.html (2352 words)

	Alastair Galbraith and Matt DeGennaro
		The long wire is played indoors, ideally in a wooden structure, which would become the resonator for the wire when attached to the building.
		His sensitivity to playing the wires may be a by-product of his general interest in the physics and mystery of the long wire; why it works, the sound, longitudinal vibrations, harmonics.
		When the wires are taught and stroked with rosined fingers or a piece of leather, we send longitudinal vibrations through the wires to where the wires are attached, creating a natural resonator (unlike a transverse vibration with a bow on a violin string feathered at a right angle).
	www.emperorjones.com /alastairmatt.html (3992 words)

	Alvin Lucier - Discography
		—MUSIC FOR PIANO WITH AMPLIFIED SONOROUS VESSELS (1991), Hildegard Kleeb, piano.
		MUSIC ON A LONG THIN WIRE, Lovely Music LCD 1011, 1992; CD release of the 1980 LP, with new liner notes.
		MUSIC FOR SOLO PERFORMER Lovely Music, Ltd. VR 1014, 1982.
	alucier.web.wesleyan.edu /discography.html (713 words)

	Browse by Artist: LUCIER, ALVIN
		Alvin Lucier is one of American's quintessential minimalist innovators, composing & performing extreme music for pure tones, brains waves, the ""generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media," etc. Music On A Long Thin Wire is one of his all-time classic works of hovering tones & sonic phenomena, recorded in 1979.
		The thin wire is set vibrating four times at four different frequencies; what results is not the low drone one might expect from a long, vibrating wire, but a complexity of evocative, ethereal chords.
		The stanzas seemed musical enough just as they were, and he wanted the audience to hear the poem more or less in its pristine state.
	www.forcedexposure.com /artists/lucier.alvin.html (2108 words)

	Browse by Label: LOVELY MUSIC
		Radigue was born in France and has studied under Pierre Shaeffer and Pierre Henry; her musical has an extremely organic and mystical electronics vibe, and has been previously documented on Phill Niblock's XI label, as well as Metamkine and Lovely.
		Cage's notation heralded a new concept of musical time, placing the performer in a new relation to the score, one in which orientation is the occurrence of events rather than to the relations between them, which is to say to action rather than to memory.
		My performance style resides somewhere between musical speech and melodic interpretation in a lyrical, poetic approach to the articulation of words, capitalizing on their inherent sound shapes, vernacular and colloquial origins, and intricate vocal rhythms.
	www.forcedexposure.com /labels/lovely.music.html (4966 words)

	Alvin Lucier- Music On A Long Thin Wire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alvin Lucier- Music On A Long Thin Wire
		Alvin Lucier on "Music On A Long Thin Wire"
		I just got the idea to extend that in size- to have an really extraordinary long wire would really generate something amazing.
	www.furious.com /perfect/ohm/lucier.html (512 words)

	Listening - Alvin Lucier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of music and sound installations exploring acoustic phenomena, especially resonance, as well as a former member of the Sonic Arts Union along with Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma.
		As a self-acknowledged composer of experimental music, Luciers compositions generally deal with some element of indeterminacy.
		Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire and studied at Yale and Brandeis University and spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Fellowship.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /Adachi4101/alvin-lucier-listening.html (338 words)

	Alvin Lucier - Last.fm
		Alvin Lucier (born May 14, 1931) is an American composer of music and sound installations exploring acoustic phenomena, especially resonance, as well as a former member of the Sonic Arts Union along with Robert Ashley, David...
		Music on a Long Thin Wire 1 (6:43, edit)
		Listen to music, see charts for Alvin Lucier – I Am Sitting In A Room, Alvin Lucier – Music on a long thin wire, Alvin Lucier – Music On A Long Thin Wire 1, Alvin Lucier – Music on a Long Thin Wire (edit), Alvin Lucier – 18:28
	www.last.fm /music/Alvin+Lucier (342 words)

	The Singing Tower - Hampshire College - Amherst, MA
		Because interest was so great among those on campus who saw the unusual, gigantic musical instrument, housed in the college’s recital hall, Olson agreed both to hold the demonstration and to play the Singing Tower on a couple of songs during the Div III concert of another Hampshire music student.
		Music professor Warner provided valuable perspective on how Olson’s creative efforts fit within a larger cultural context, in particular how they related to what has been done in music and composition and what could be done in new ways.
		He is pleased to have produced a new instrument rather than pursuing a more traditional musical project, such as writing a score.
	www.hampshire.edu /cms/index.php?id=7396 (1051 words)

	Thomas Moore's Alvin Lucier Interview
		Music on a Long Thin Wire is one of them.
		It was played on the new music festival in Chicago, and it was played again at Oberlin, and it may be played next year by the Brooklyn Philharmonic.
		I'm teaching at a wonderful place, I'm chairman of the music department, if you can imagine that, and the music department has always been very open as to what music is. I mean, it was one of the first places that, you know, had Indian music and Javanese music and things of that kind.
	research.umbc.edu /~tmoore/lucier.html (2233 words)

	ANTIOPIC \| ANSI002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Pieces such as "I Am Sitting in a Room" (1970) and "Music on a Long Thin Wire" (1977) are unequivocal minimalist classics.
		Cellist Charles Curtis is recognized internationally as a performer of new and experimental music.
		Currently, Curtis is a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego.
	www.antiopic.com /catalog/ansi002.html (762 words)

	Grouping Constraints
		The musical surface must be capable of being parsed into a sequence of discrete events.
		That is, while "cognitively opaque" music is not terribly interesting to listen to, "cognitively transparent" music is just about as boring.
		A time-span tree is a hierarchical representation of the time-based relationships in the music.
	eamusic.dartmouth.edu /~kov/lerdahl/Grouping.html (677 words)

	Sonic Pieces
		The insides of the boxes are filled with chaotic circuits and wires that react and spout sounds in relation to the movements.
		A long guitar string is stretched across the stage and driven (vibrated) by an electro-magnet.
		Pendulum Music was orginally written to use an arrangement of speakers and hanging microphones.
	www.bugbrand.co.uk /pages/sonicpieces.htm (722 words)

	The Next Few Hours
		Tonight is the opening night for the Subtropics Experimental and Sound Art Music Festival, which runs through March 4 (week 1 events are at the Dorsch Gallery; week 2 events are at various locales on Miami Beach).
		It features a long thin wire straddled by a large magnet and vibrated by a sine wave oscillator.
		Music on a Long Thin Wire can be experienced as a performance by Ben Manley on opening night at 7pm and will continue as an installation at Dorsch Gallery February 24 – 25, and March 1, 3, and 4 starting at 6pm each night.
	thenextfewhours.com /blog/2006/02 (2650 words)

	Erik's Rants and Recipes: Music for Gray Days
		I like music that is slightly moody, but not given to intense emotionalism.
		Alvin Lucier's Music on a Long Thin Wire
		1920's blues, rags and other string music, for instance, Suzy Thompson's soon to be released CD on Arhoolie, or the Crumb soundtrack, or John Jackson's Country Blues and Ditties.
	www.pinkmochi.com /eriksrant/archives/000781.html (356 words)

	Alvin Lucier - Biography
		He has visited Japan twice: in 1988 he performed at the Abiko Festival, Tokyo, and installed MUSIC ON A LONG THIN WIRE in Kyoto; in 1992 he toured with pianist Aki Takahashi, performing in Kawasaki, Yamaguchi and Yokohama.
		In January 1992, he performed in Delhi, Madras, and Bombay, and during the summer of that year was guest composer at the Time of Music Festival in Vitaasari, Finland.
		In April, 1997, Lucier presented a concert of his works on the MAKING MUSIC SERIES at Carnegie Hall and in October of the same year his most recent sound installation, EMPTY VESSELS, was exhibited at the Donaueschingen Music Festival in Germany.
	alucier.web.wesleyan.edu /bio.html (425 words)

	Alvin Lucier - Free Music Downloads, Videos, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A trailblazing force in psycho-acoustic music, avant-garde composer and performer Alvin Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1931; educated at Yale and Brandeis, he also spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship before returning to Brandeis in 1962 to teach and conduct the university's chamber chorus.
		Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers (15:09)
		Music for Piano With Amplified Sonorous Vessels (14:47)
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/songs/0,,460821,00.html (320 words)

	JS Online:Artwork has museum staff buzzing
		Here is an explanation of the sound taken from Amazon.com: A 50 foot length of taut wire passes through the poles of a large magnet and is driven by an oscillator; the vibrations of the wire are miked at either end, amplified and broadcast in stereo.
		Like a guitar string stretched the length of a corridor that never stops ringing, Alvin Lucier's "Music on a Long Thin Wire" is installed in one of the long gallerias in the Santiago Calatrava building.
		A magnet straddles the wire on one end, and a single sound wave is sent through it.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=413834 (1041 words)

	OHM- The Gurus of Electronic Music
		The end result is OHM- The Early Gurus of Electronic Music on Ellipsis Arts (available April 24th).
		Along with Thomas and the Ellipsis crew, we worked long and hard to contact all of the living composers to get quotes about their pieces as well as find archival essays and photos to go along with comments from artists influenced by these composers.
		I myself learned a lot from the experience and found myself with a treasure trove of material that we were not able to include in the accompanying booklet.
	www.furious.com /perfect/ohm (507 words)

	Roughly Enforcing Nostalgia - Instant Classics - Naked Lunch
		(This idea owes some theoretical similarities to Alvin Lucier’s Music on a Long Thin Wire, in which a miced 50 ft wire was excited by an oscillator.) As a gag on Modern Classical, samples from Zorn’s Cobra were inserted, neutralizing its original celebration of slap-dash into a structured endeavor.
		All in all, the song was meant to have a tossed-together feel, a stream-of-consciousness jam session in which the knob-turner is more important than the musician, and so the video’s aesthetic followed suit.
		This grotesque imagery represents physical growth occurring long after the host body is deceased, tying into the notion that Burroughs was in essence a heroin-addicted zombie creating while “dead”.
	www.roughly.net /InstantClassics/program/naked.htm (356 words)

	The History of Avantgarde Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A rarely-recorded pioneer of minimalism, Phill Niblock (USA, 1933), tried, fundamentally, to create music without rhythm or melody, by slow accumulation of microtones.
		Niblock's droning soundscapes originated from the superimposition and juxtaposition of sustained sounds which were, in turn, obtained from reprocessing acoustic instruments.
		Accordionist Pauline Oliveros (USA, 1932), the most significant purveyor of "deep listening" music, explored the psychological effects of sound in works such as Horse Sings From Cloud (1975), Rattlesnake Mountain (1982), Wanderer (1985), The Roots Of The Moment (1988) and Deep Listening (1988).
	www.scaruffi.com /avant/cpt7.html (180 words)

	Fong plays Cage
		This music balances on a thin vibrating line, stretching through the rendezvous of noses and necks in curved space.
		This music insists, gives a darn damn, in a stubborn desertlike tour de force of a sparsely heard kind, in a rare erotic tension.
		Some parameters are strict, precise, while the executer in other realms of the music is left to herself and her instrument.
	home.swipnet.se /sonoloco2/Rec/OgreOgressProductions/fongcage.html (647 words)

	MUSI443: Sound Studio - The String in Computer Music
		The class builds on the foundations of computer music studied in MUSI 339, Introduction to Computers in Music.
		In Sound Studio the theory, history and compositional approaches to digital audio synthesis and advanced MIDI are explored with a concentration on creative uses of music technology.
		The participation part of the grade is based on these things and in sharing ideas in class discussions and in general by being a good citizen of the VCCM by assisting others with technical problems and treating the studios and equipment with respect.
	www.people.virginia.edu /~cmb4f/443.html (729 words)

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		It was basically just a > long wire stretched taut across a stage with the vibrations > amplfied and (in this case) played live over the local college > station for several days running.
		When I can --- with one eye --- glimpse at the miniature screen, voice-command, hear the musical software in full glory of 3D sound, and have it subtly vibrate parts of my body while I wear it would I say we have arrived at the blissful "sexy" state of music SOFTWARE i.e.
		there is enough music for all, no need for them to sell the media at the outrageous price and hog the music industry like Oil Cartels.
	www.smoe.org /lists/alloy/v05.n037 (1079 words)

	Amazon: Listmania! - View List "The best of drone music" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Early music made of course on a Long Thin Wire.
		Sounds like you fell overboard and you are sinking slowly into the deep ocean floor still hearing the boat pass you by.
		Long Wires in Dark Museums Volume 1 (North Island) by Galbraith, Alastair
	amazon.com /gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/1P94DNZ8XM68Y?_encoding=UTF8 (422 words)

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