Alvin Lucier

condition (4LP/CD/book/box): M / M / M / EX

Edition of 500 numbered copies (this is 158/500).

A box recorded during the festival held for Alvin Lucier's 85th birthday at the Zurich University of the Arts, 12 to 14 October 2016. Lucier himself performs I Am Sitting in a Room, where his voice is replayed into the room until only its resonances are left, and Music for Solo Performer, played by amplified brain waves on percussion.

Later pieces include Double Rainbow for Joan La Barbara and oscillator, Hanover with The Ever Present Orchestra (Oren Ambarchi and Stephen O'Malley on guitars) and, on the CD, One Arm Bandits for four cellos led by Charles Curtis. Four LPs, CD and 120-page book. This is the numbered 2018 second edition with Black Truffle.

LP 1 Side A
I Am Sitting in a Room (1970) for voice and electromagnetic tape /  Alvin Lucier, performer / Hauke Harder, assistant. 18:20 min
LP 1 Side B
Music for Solo Performer (1965) for enormously ampli ed brain
waves and percussion / Alvin Lucier, brain waves / Hauke Harder and Daniel Wolf, assistants. 24:06 min
LP 2 Side A
Charles Curtis (2002) for cello
with slow sweep pure wave oscillators /  Charles Curtis, cello. 13:40 min
LP 2 Side B
Double Rainbow (2016) for voice and slow sweep pure wave oscillator /  Joan La Barbara, voice. (world premiere) 12:08 min
Nothing is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever) (1990) for piano, ampli ed teapot, tape recorder, and miniature sound system / Johannes Herrmann, piano. 8:21 min
LP 3 Side A
Braid (2012) for alto  ute, clarinet, English horn, and string quartet / Felix Profos, conductor / Patrycja Pakiela, alto  ute / Soraya Dos Santos, clarinet / Megumi Nakajima, English horn / Nora Peterhans and Cécile Vonderwahl, violin /  Tabea Frei, viola / Nadja Reich, cello. (European premiere) 16:00 min
LP 3 Side B
Two Circles (2012) for  flute, B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, and piano / Felix Profos, conductor / Patrycja Pakiela,  ute / Soraya Dos Santos, clari- net / Nora Peterhans, violin / Nadja Reich, cello / Lora-Evelin Vakova, piano. 17:52 min
LP 4 Side A
Hanover (2015) for violin, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, three banjos (three e-guitars), piano, and bowed vibraphone /  e Ever Present Orchestra: Lars Mlekusch, conductor / Rebecca  ies, violin /  Charles Ng, alto saxophone / Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos, tenor saxo- phone / Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O’Malley, Gary Schmalzl, electric guitar / Felix Profos, piano / Anthony Burr, bowed vibraphone. (European premiere) 18:06 min
LP 4 Side B
Step, Slide and Sustain (2014) for horn in F, cello, and piano / Retro Disco: Samuel Stoll, horn / Moritz Muellen- bach, cello / Simone Keller, piano. (world premiere) 14:55 min
CD
One Arm Bandits (2016) for four cellos / Charles Curtis, TJ Borden, Judith Hamann, Reynard Rott, cello. 60:09 min