Alvin Lucier Vespers and Other Early Works (CD) Album
$ 13.89
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Further Details Title: Vespers and Other Early Works Condition: New Format: CD Edition: Album No Of Discs: 1 Record Label: New World Records Release Date: 06/05/2006 Genre: Classical Style: 20th Century EAN: 0093228060420 Description: Alvin Lucier (b. 1931) is best known for his pioneering work in the mid-sixties in the exploration of sonic environments, particularly sounds that we would never perceive under ordinary circumstances. Vespers and Other Early Works restores to the catalog several of his key works from that time. In Vespers (1969) performers with Sondols (sonar-dolphin), hand-held pulse wave oscillators, explore the acoustic characteristics of given indoor or outdoor spaces by monitoring the echoes of the pulse waves off the walls, floors and ceilings, as well as any objects or obstacles in range of the sound waves. Over time, the listener receives an acoustic signature of the room. In Chambers (1968), battery-operated radios, tape recorders, and electronically powered toys of various kinds are hidden in paper bags, shoes, kettles, and small suitcases and other small resonant environments. As performers carry these small "rooms" into larger ones, such as concert halls, football stad! iums and underground cisterns, the sounds, already altered by the acoustics of the small environments, are altered a second time by the acoustics of the larger ones. This version was recorded in 2002. North American Time Capsule (1967), for voices and vocoder, is described metaphorically by Lucier as a message to listeners who dont know about us. These could be very remote and exotic humans or the fabled "beings" in some other part of the universe. The message is encoded in accordance with the empirical fact that purely electronic signals are more easily transmitted through space (and through time) than the more complex waveforms of speech. (Middletown) Memory Space (1970) is a reenactment of the composition called "(Hartford) Memory Space, for any number of instrumental players with recordings of environmental sounds Artist: Alvin Lucier Country/Region of Manufacture: Netherlands MPN: 806042 Release Year: 2006 Missing Information? Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
