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Alvin Lucier focus

Tom Service presents a special focus on the music of Alvin Lucier, who died last month. with highlights from a recent concert of his music and an in-depth archive interview.

Tom Service presents a special focus on the music of Alvin Lucier, who died last month, with highlights from a concert of his music recorded in London, and an in-depth archive interview with him.

Alvin Lucier: EPO5
Alvin Lucier: Two Circles
Ever Present Orchestra
Also tonight, music from Aberdeen Sound Festival 2021:
Tansy Davies: Yoik II
David Fennessy: Divje Babe
Ruth Morley (flute)
Luke Styles: Five Phase Sphere
Red Note Ensemble
And from Donaueshingen Music Days 2021:
Oyvind Torvund: Plans
Klangforum Wien

Lucier was a distinguished American experimental composer. Much of his work was influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media.

The Ever Present Orchestra was formed exclusively to perform the music of Lucier, in Switzerland in 2017. The concert featuring in tonight's show was recorded in London in 2019, and Tom also talks to the orchestra's director, Bernhard Rietbrock, about Lucier's legacy.

1 hour, 59 minutes

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Sat 15 Jan 2022 22:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gavin Higgins

    Gursky Landscapes: II. Les M茅es

    Performer: David Cohen. Ensemble: Piatti Quartet.
    • Gavin Higgins: Ekstasis.
    • Nimbus.
    • 2.

  • Alvin Lucier

    EPO5

    Ensemble: Ever Present Orchestra.

  • Alvin Lucier

    Music For Solo Performer

    Performer: Alvin Lucier.
    • Music For Solo Performer.
    • Lovely Music.
    • 1.

  • Alvin Lucier

    Music On A Long Thin Wire (extract)

    Performer: Alvin Lucier.
    • Music On A Long Thin Wire.
    • Lovely Music.

  • John Cage

    Two5

  • Alvin Lucier

    Sferics

    Performer: Alvin Lucier.
    • Sferics.
    • Lovely Music.
    • 1.

  • Alvin Lucier

    Two Circles

    Ensemble: Ever Present Orchestra.

  • Tansy Davies

    Yoik II

    Performer: Ruth Morley.

  • Luke Styles

    Five Phase Sphere

    Ensemble: Red Note Ensemble. Conductor: William Cole.

  • David Fennessy

    Divje Babe

    Performer: Ruth Morley.

  • Oyvind Torvund

    Plans

    Ensemble: Klangforum Wien.

  • David Lumsdaine

    6 Postcard Pieces, no.5: Sonata

    Performer: Peter Lawson.
    • White Dawn: Songs and Soundscapes by David Lumsdaine.
    • 惭茅迟颈别谤.
    • 14.

  • David Lumsdaine

    Soundscapes IV: Serenade

    Performer: Gemini.
    • White Dawn: Songs and Soundscapes by David Lumsdaine.
    • 惭茅迟颈别谤.
    • 16.

Broadcast

  • Sat 15 Jan 2022 22:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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