Episode 21 - Alvin Lucier is Lying in a Box

Alvin Lucier died the day we recorded this. I explain his seminal piece... poorly. Then we listen to the first episode as played from Brandon's computer, picked up by his mic, and then recorded from my computer speakers with my mic. As always with this episode, taking the wrong lessons from avant garde greats. We're never gonna get that CIA seed money. In keeping with the spirit of this episode, here's what Wikipedia says about Lucier. Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American composer of experimental musicand sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media.