Alvin Lucier

Alvin Lucier was born in 1931 in Nashua, New Hampshire. He attended Yale and Brandeis and spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. In 1966 he co-founded the Sonic Arts Union, along with Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Gordon Mumma.

Lucier’s most recent works include Ever Present, for flute, alto saxophone and piano; Almost New York, for one flutist with 5 flutes; Charles Curtis for solo cello with slow sweep pure wave oscillators; Fan for 4 kotos; Bar Lazy J for trombone and clarinet, Tapper for solo violin, and Kirlics, for baritone voice and French horn.

Lucier is currently working on a commission from Meet The Composer for a large-scale work for the Sospeso Ensemble, to be installed this Spring at Engine 27, as well as a sound installation in a cargo container for the Museum of Modern Art, Zug, Switzerland. Recent recordings include Navigations for Strings (Arditti Quartet, Mode); Vespers and other Early Works (New World Records), and Nothing Is Real (Matthias Kaul, percussion, Wergo). Reflections/Reflexionen, a bi-lingual edition of Lucier’s scores, interviews and writings is available from MusikTexte, Köln and Lovely Music Records, New York.

Mr. Lucier has recently returned from a one-month tour of Japan and a three-week sojourn as Guest Composer at the Ostrava New Music Days, Czech Republic. Alvin Lucier is currently John Spencer Camp Professor of Music at Wesleyan University.