aworks five-star links :: march 24 2010 /this whole immanence/transcendence problem/

The Met via Wikipedia

I Am the Wife of Mao-Tse Tung from Adams' Nixon in China is in fact memorable. (Musicwhore.org)

Short video performance of Rzewski's Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting in a Room. To my surprise, I find the video disturbing. (embody the struggle)

A generally positive review of the Metropolitan Opera's The Nose. (The Opera Tattler)

"Carl Stone is a musical magpie. He'll steal music from just about anywhere he can get his hands on."   (New Sounds podcast with particularly good selections of his work)

"In the new regime of explod­ing media, where we find our­selves read­ing a review for a for­mat that we can’t even use, that we’ve never even seen, where the rec­om­men­da­tion algo­rithms haven’t fig­ured out how to make dis­tinc­tions quite so sophis­ti­cated, and where we still have this whole immanence/transcendence prob­lem that’s dogged us for cen­turies to boot – ..." (SnarkMarket)

Comments

[David Ocker]

And what of Alvin Lucier?

[Scottu]

I think what David is alluding to, is that Alvin Lucier is the composer of "I Am Sitting in a Room."

[rchrd]

Actually, the original performance (or one of the early performances) of "I Am Sitting.." featured projections of photographs by Mary Lucier that incrementally when thru Xeroxing. Much like the way "I am sitting.." was produced, each image is xeroxed and then the resulting copy is copied again, etc. Eventually the image is totally destroyed by the process and something new emerges. I remember being very impressed by these images and the correspondence between the sound and visual processes.

I believe the starting photograph was that of the room Lucier was sitting in. Eventually you find yourself staring into outer space.