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- From: gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor)
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- Subject: Questions on a long, thin, wire
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- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:28:17 GMT
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- Lazlo Nibble has a question for another smug r.m.m. old-timer:
- >>This follows right on the heels of a re-release of Alvin Lucier's "Music
- >> on a Long, Thin Wire"
- >Was this album spawned from the installation at Winrock Center in Albuquerque?
-
- Actually, Lucier's long, thin, wire (note to the uninitiated. It's a
- very long string which is driven/excited using the usual magnetic
- voodoo in one of those complicated nonlinear loops. It'll either
- strike you as cool or wallpaper. I think it works better in real life,
- given that it looks so darned mysterious and has such *presence* as
- an installed thing. The recording's pretty cool, though - and much
- easier to take if you fall into the category of folks who don't mind
- pieces of music which are systems created, and then allowed to run
- their course and entertain the masses) has been all over the place.
- This CD is a reissue of a recording from, oh, the late 70s? Lucier
- is very quietly putting out a bit of his older "conceptual" catalog
- [pieces like "I am Sitting In a Room", which takes a recording of his
- voice and then plays it back through speakers in a room and then records
- that and plays it back and records it again and then repeats this whole
- process and strings the results all together until the voice recording
- is transformed into these graceful waves or resonance and feedback],
- and they appear to be reissues rather than re-recordings. Some of the
- re-releases on Lovely (such as David Behrman's "Leapday Night" or Kosugi's
- "Improvisations") seem to include new tracks when they're re-released.
- This one doesn't.
- --
- The law moves quickly in the rain/and chokes the world with memorials./The
- courts accept the lowest superstition/into evidence. And we embrace quickly in
- the rain,/conceiving a hale infant with hands to wrinkle/the bedsheets toward
- it, wave by trough by wave./Gregory Taylor/Heurikon /Madison, WI/608-828-3385
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