Alvin Lucier - Theme Жанр: Minimalism, Experimental Год выпуска диска: 1999 Производитель диска: Lovely Music, Ltd. (LCD 5011) Источник: вот.сиди (aperiodic) Аудио кодек: FLAC Тип рипа: tracks Битрейт аудио: lossless Продолжительность: 57:03 Треклист:
1. Music For Piano With Magnetic Strings 22:58 Piano - Lois Svard 2. Theme 18:45 Lyrics By John Ashbery
Voice - Jacqueline Humbert , Joan La Barbara , Sam Ashley , Thomas Buckner 3. Music For Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers And Loudspeakers 15:09 The Wesleyan University Gamelan Ensemble 1 recorded January 12, 1997, at the Weis Center for the Performing Arts, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA.
2 and 3 record at Sorcerer Sound, New York.
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ALVIN LUCIER Theme Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings (22:58) Years ago I met a music critic who said he didn’t like music made with wires. He was referring to my Music on a Long Thin Wire which had just been installed at the Landmark Center in Saint Paul, as part of New Music America Minneapolis 1980. I retorted that he must not like the piano; it contained over two hundred and fifty of them. When Lois Svard asked me to write her a piece, my mind flashed back to that encounter and I imagined a work in which the strings of a piano would sound by themselves. In Music on a Long Thin Wire a large horseshoe magnet straddles the wire creating a flux field around it which, in conjunction with a current from an oscillator, causes the wire to vibrate and sound. For a piano work I would need several small magnets to activate more than one string at a time. I bought several EBows, small electromagnets used primarily with electric guitars. I experimented, placing them on the strings of my piano. I discovered that if I waited long enough, certain strings would begin sounding. I wrote Lois a prose score, describing the process and suggesting she freely position and reposition five EBows on the piano strings, creating strands of sounds of varying density and texture. Much of her time is spent listening for harmonics, audible beating, occasional rhythms produced as one or more magnets vibrates against adjacent strings, and other acoustic phenomena. Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings was first performed by Lois Svard on the Interpretations Series, Merkin Hall, New York, May 11, 1995. Theme (18:45) I first met John Ashbery in Berlin in 1991. I was a Guest Composer of the DAAD Artist Program at the time and had gone to a reading by Ashbery sponsored by the Literature Program. I had for a long time admired his poetry and was delighted to meet and talk with him. When I began planning my Collaborations Festival at Wesleyan in 1994, I suggested to the Poetry Series Committee that they invite John to come to Middletown for a reading. He agreed. I asked him if he would let me set a poem of his to music. He sent me Theme, an unpublished poem which had a couple of musical references. From the very beginning I knew I didn’t want to violate the flow of the words of the poem by fragmentation or any other cut-up method. The stanzas seemed musical enough just as they were and I wanted the audience to hear the poem more or less in its pristine state. I wrote out the poem for four readers in the order it was written, repeating words and phrases, overlapping and superimposing them in various ways. I worked intuitively and by ear. Every once in a while I would go back to something I heard before or rearrange a few lines and phrases to make different, unexpected meanings. I felt that the poem itself had certain characteristics of automatic writing. To “set” the poem, I inserted microphones into the mouths of various vessels I had collected, including a small milk bottle, a sea shell, a vase and an empty ostrich egg, to pick up the words as they were sounding inside the vessels. (I thought of them as four small rooms.) The readers speak normally, allowing the pitches of their voices which match those resonances of the vessels to create musical sounds. Occasionally, however, a reader will tend to emphasize certain pitches more than others, reading in an almost chant-like way, to sound the resonances of the vessels more clearly. Theme was first performed on October 20, 1994, Russell House, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, by Wesleyan faculty members Gertrude Hughes, Indira Karamcheti and William Stowe, English Department, and Victor Gourevitch, Professor Emeritus, Philosophy Department. Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers (15:09) In 1994, when Wesleyan University invited me to present a festival of my work, I decided to make as many new works as possible rather than simply present a retrospective of older works. I had for some time wanted to make a work for Javanese gamelan but was hesitant to do so for three reasons: one, I didn’t want to infringe on the generosity of my colleagues Sumarsam and I. M. Harjito, who were so often asked to relinquish important rehearsal time for the performance of new works; two, I have always been wary of using someone else’s music in my own work; and three, I didn’t have an original idea. I certainly didn’t want my piece to sound Indonesian. It wasn’t until I started imagining the bowl-shaped bonangs of the gamelan orchestra more as resonant chambers to be sounded than objects to be struck, that I felt I could make a work that I could call my own. I now felt comfortable in asking my colleagues if they would be interested in having me compose a work for their ensemble. They agreed. During the performance four players place bonangs of various sizes over microphones, creating feedback, the pitch of which is determined by the shape and size of the bowl and the resonant characteristics of the room. Three gender players strike the bars on their metallaphones, searching for the pitches of the feedback strands. Since it is virtually impossible that a strand of feedback will match exactly a pitch on any fixed-pitch instruments, audible beats – bumps of sound which occur as sound waves coincide – occur. The closer the tuning, the slower the beating. When the players reach near-unison with a feedback strand they slow down or speed up their playing, creating beating patterns between the pitches of their instruments and those of the feedback. Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers was first performed on October 18, 1994, World Music Hall, Wesleyan University by the Wesleyan University Gamelan Ensemble. — Alvin Lucier, 1999
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