Alvin Lucier

Biography by Jason Ankeny

Trailblazing American avant-garde composer whose work explores acoustic phenomena and the science of sound.
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Title	Year	Genre
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas	1972	Electronic/Computer Music
Music on a Long Thin Wire	1977	Miscellaneous (Classical)
Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra, for amplified triangle	1988	Chamber Music
I Am Sitting in a Room, for speaker & electronics	1970	Vocal Music
Fideliotrio, for viola, cello & piano	1987	Chamber Music
Carbon Copies, for saxophone, piano, flute & playback	1989	Chamber Music
In Memoriam Jon Higgins, for clarinet & slow-sweep pure wave oscillator		Chamber Music
Two Circles, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & pure wave oscillators	2012	Chamber Music
Music for piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels	1990	Keyboard
Wind Shadows	1994	Miscellaneous (Classical)
Ever Present, for flute, piano & saxophone	2002	Chamber Music
Opera with Objects, for performer(s) with resonant objects	1997	Miscellaneous (Classical)
Broken Line, for flute, vibraphone & piano	2006	Chamber Music
Music for Solo Performer	1965	Electronic/Computer Music
Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings		Keyboard
Violynn, for violin		Chamber Music
Fragments, for strings	1961	Chamber Music
Clocker for clock, galvanic skin response sensor & digital delay system		Electronic/Computer Music
Nothing Is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever), for piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder & miniature sound system (after Lennon/ McCar	1990	Keyboard
Music for piano with one or more Snare Drums	1990	Keyboard