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)
And what of Alvin Lucier?
Posted by: David Ocker | March 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM
I think what David is alluding to, is that Alvin Lucier is the composer of "I Am Sitting in a Room."
Posted by: Scottu | March 25, 2010 at 11:10 AM
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.
Posted by: rchrd | March 25, 2010 at 08:40 PM