aworks ordered list :: alvin lucier on lala

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1. Ever Present
2. I Am Sitting in a Room
3. Music for Alpha Waves, Assorted Percussion, and Automated Coded Relays
4. Music For Cello With One Or More Amplified Vases
5. "On The Carpet Of Leaves Illuminated By The Moon"
6. Fan
7. Elegy for Albert Anastasia
8. Piper

Ever Present is more than just a simple tone. As the waves sweep up and down, the players sustain long tones across them creating beating patterns (DRAM)...I Am Sitting is a fifteen minute version...Music for Alpha Waves is more percussion than alpha waves...Music for Cello is from the fine album of Lucier's music by Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis (lala)...On the Carpet is for koto and the title comes from a complicated Italo Calvino novel (DRAM. Wikipedia)...Although also written for koto, Fan is reminiscent of Steve Reich's Pendulum Music (Wikipedia)...Elegy for Albert Anastaia is an early tape work and reminds me of the Finding Nemo ride at Disneyland...Piper is performed by a bagpiper walking around a space; not as painful sounding as you might imagine.