Alvin Lucier

Biography by Jason Ankeny

A trailblazing force in psycho-acoustic music, avant-garde composer and performer Alvin Lucier was born in Nashua, New Hampshire in 1931; educated at Yale and Brandeis, he also spent two years in Rome…
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Composition Highlights

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
Fideliotrio, for viola, cello & piano	1987	Chamber Music
I Am Sitting in a Room, for speaker & electronics	1970	Vocal Music
Music for piano with Amplified Sonorous Vessels	1990	Keyboard
Fragments, for strings	1961	Chamber Music
Music for Solo Performer	1965	Electronic/Computer Music
In Memoriam Jon Higgins, for clarinet & slow-sweep pure wave oscillator		Chamber Music
Broken Line, for flute, vibraphone & piano	2006	Chamber Music
Wind Shadows	1994	Miscellaneous (Classical)
Violynn, for violin		Chamber Music
Two Circles, for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano & pure wave oscillators	2012	Chamber Music
Ever Present, for flute, piano & saxophone	2002	Chamber Music
Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings		Keyboard
Carbon Copies, for saxophone, piano, flute & playback	1989	Chamber Music
Opera with Objects, for performer(s) with resonant objects	1997	Miscellaneous (Classical)
On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon, for koto	2000	Miscellaneous (Classical)
Small Waves, for string quartet, trombone, piano & 2 water pourers	1997	Chamber Music
Slices, for cello & orchestra	2007	Concerto