Alvin Lucier

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THEME Lovely Music, Ltd. LCD 5011, 1999.
—THEME (1994) for voices and sonorous vessels, on poems of John Ashbery.
—MUSIC FOR GAMELAN INSTRUMENTS, MICROPHONES, AMPLIFIERS AND LOUDSPEAKERS (1994), Wesleyan University Gamelan
—MUSIC FOR PIANO WITH MAGNETIC STRINGS (1996), Lois Svard, piano.

GHOSTS AND MONSTERS: technology and personality in contemporary music. (Various composers) Leonardo music journal CD series, v. 8, 1999.
—NOTHING IS REAL (STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER) (1990) for piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system.

SILVER STREETCAR FOR THE ORCHESTRA Algen CD 120, Berlin, 1998.
—SILVER STREETCAR FOR THE ORCHESTRA (1988), for amplified triangle, Rainer Romer, triangle.

40 ROOMS iEAR Studios CD-ROM, 1998.
—40 ROOMS (1996), for quintet and LARES system, Barton Workshop.

AC-DC-VC (Jeffrey Krieger; various composers) Non Sequitur/What Next? Recordings CD WN0022, 1997.
—INDIAN SUMMER (1993), for solo electronic cello, Jeffrey Krieger, cello.

PANORAMA Lovely Music, Ltd. LCD 1012, 1997.
—WIND SHADOWS (1994), for trombone with closely tuned pure wave oscillators, Roland Dahinden, trombone.
—MUSIC FOR PIANO WITH ONE OR MORE SNARE DRUMS (1992), Hildegard Kleeb, piano.
—MUSIC FOR PIANO WITH AMPLIFIED SONOROUS VESSELS (1991), Hildegard Kleeb, piano.
—PANORAMA (1993) for trombone and piano, Roland Dahinden, trombone, Hildegard Kleeb.

RAS 2 (Various composers) Revista de Arte Sonoro, Number 2, 1997.
—CHAMBERS (1968), for performers with resonant objects.

WITTENER TAGE FUR NEUE KAMMERMUSIK, 1997, Live Documentation (Various composers), Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Koln WD97, 1997.
—NAVIGATIONS FOR STRINGS (1992), Arditti String Quartet.

LUCIER, WOLFF, SCHLOTHAUER, FREY (Jurg Frey, Various composers) Timescraper Records, EWR 9608, 1996.
—IN MEMORIAM JON HIGGINS (1985), for clarinet and pure wave oscillator, Jurg Frey, clarinet.

AUTOMATIC WRITING (Robert Ashley, composer, various performers) Lovely Music LCD 1002, 1996.
—SHE WAS A VISITOR (Brandeis University Chamber Chorus; Alvin Lucier, director).

CLOCKER Lovely Music, Ltd. LCD 1019, 1994.
—CLOCKER (1978), for performer with galvanic skin response sensor, digital delay system and amplified clock.

U.S.A. (Arditti String Quartet, various composers) Disques Montaigne CD 782010, 1993.
—FRAGMENTS FOR STRINGS (1961), Arditti String Quartet.

UPPER AIR OBSERVATION (Barbara Held, various composers), Lovely Music, Ltd. LCD 3031, 1992.
—SELF PORTRAIT (1989), for solo flute and wind anemometer, Barbara Held, flute.

MUSIC ON A LONG THIN WIRE, Lovely Music LCD 1011, 1992; CD release of the 1980 LP, with new liner notes.
—MUSIC ON A LONG THIN WIRE (1977), sound installation for audio oscillator and electronic monochord.

CROSSINGS, Lovely Music, Ltd. LCD 1018, 1990.
—IN MEMORIAM JON HIGGINS (1985), for clarinet and pure wave oscillator, Thomas Ridenour, clarinet.
—SEPTET FOR THREE WINDS, FOUR STRINGS AND PURE WAVE OSCILLATOR (1985), New World Consort.
—CROSSINGS (1984), for small orchestra with slow sweep, pure wave oscillator, New World Consort.

I AM SITTING IN A ROOM Lovely Music, Ltd. LP/CD 1013, 1981/1990.
—I AM SITTING IN A ROOM (1970), for voice and electromagnetic tape, Alvin Lucier, voice.

IMAGINARY LANDSCAPES (Various Composers) Elektra/Nonesuch 9 79235-2, 1990.
—MUSIC FOR ALPHA WAVES, ASSORTED PERCUSSION, AND AUTOMATED CODED RELAYS (1980).

HYPER BEATLES 2 Eastworld (Japan) TOCE 6655.
—NOTHING IS REAL (STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER) (1990) for piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system, Aki Takahashi, piano.

SFERICS, Lovely Music, Ltd. VR 1017, 1988.
—SFERICS (1980), sound installation and recordings of ionospheric disturbances, for large-loop antennas, tape recorder and playback system.
—SOUND ON PAPER (1985), sound installation or performance for framed paper, loudspeakers and audio oscillator.
—MUSIC FOR PURE WAVES, BASS DRUMS AND ACOUSTIC PENDULUMS (1985)

STILL AND MOVING LINES OF SILENCE IN FAMILIES OF HYPERBOLAS, Part II Numbers 5-8. Lovely Music, Ltd. VR 1016, 1985.
—STILL AND MOVING LINES… (1983), for mallet instruments and pure wave oscillators.

STILL AND MOVING LINES OF SILENCE IN FAMILIES OF HYPERBOLAS, Part I Numbers 1-4. Lovely Music, Ltd. VR 1015, 1983.
—STILL AND MOVING LINES… (1983), for voice, clarinet, flute, horn and pure wave oscillators.

MUSIC FOR SOLO PERFORMER Lovely Music, Ltd. VR 1014, 1982.
—MUSIC FOR SOLO PERFORMER (1965), for enormously amplified brain waves and percussion.

MUSIC ON A LONG THIN WIRE, Lovely Music/Vital Records VR 1011/1012, 1980.
—MUSIC ON A LONG THIN WIRE (1977), sound installation for audio oscillator and electronic monochord.

BIRD AND PERSON DYNING/THE DUKE OF YORK Cramps Records (Italy), 1975.
—BIRD AND PERSON DYNING (1975), for performer with microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers and electronic birdcall .
—THE DUKE OF YORK (1971), for voice and synthesizers, Alvin Lucier, voice.

ELECTRONIC SOUND Mainstream MS/5010, 1971.
—VESPERS (1968), acoustic orientation by means of echolocation, for players with hand-held echolocation devices.

SOURCE Record # 3.
—I AM SITTING IN A ROOM (1970), for voice and electromagnetic tape, Alvin Lucier, voice.

EXTENDED VOICES, new pieces for chorus and for voices altered electronically by sound synthesizers and vocoder (Brandeis University Chamber Chorus; Alvin Lucier, director) In the series, "Music of Our Time," CBS Odyssey Records, 32 16 0155 (mono), 32 16 0156 (stereo), 1968.
—SOUND PATTERNS (P. Oliveros)
—NORTH AMERICAN TIME CAPSULE (1967) (A. Lucier), for voices and vocoder.
—SOLOS FOR VOICE 2 (J. Cage)
—SHE WAS A VISITOR (R. Ashley)
—EXTENDED VOICES (T. Ichyanagi)
—CHORUS AND INSTRUMENTS, II (M. Feldman)
—CHRISTIAN WOLFF IN CAMBRIDGE (M. Feldman)