ALVIN LUCIER : Music On A Long Thin Wire

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Format: CD [LCD1011]
Shipping Weight: 0.1lbs
Label: Lovely Music

2,036円

'First released on Lovely Music in 1980. A 50-foot length of taut wire passes through the poles of a large magnet and is driven by an oscillator; the vibrations of the wire are miked at either end, amplified, and broadcast in stereo. The thin wire is set vibrating four times at four different frequencies; what results is not the low drone one might expect from a long, vibrating wire, but a complexity of evocative, ethereal chords. Music On A Long Thin Wire is a classic example of Alvin Lucier's investigations into the physics of sound and the sonic properties of natural processes.'

1 Wire I 18:41
2 Wire II 18:38
3 Wire III 18:27
4 Wire IV 18:58

Art Direction – By Design
Composed By, Recorded By, Liner Notes – Alvin Lucier
Edited By [Digital], Mastered By – Allan Tucker
Photography By – Lon Holmberg
Originally released as a double LP [VR 1011/12].

Recorded May 10, 1979, in the Rotunda of the U.S. Custom House, Bowling Green, New York City.