Alvin Lucierwas born in Nashua, NH, USA and attended the Portsmouth
Abbey School, Yale, and Brandeis. He lived in Rome for two years on
a Fulbright Scholarship. He has performed extensively in the United
States and Europe in solo concerts and with the Sonic Arts Union,
which he co-founded with composers Robert Ashley, David Behrman,
and Gordon Mumma, and with the Viola Farber Dance Company. He has
taught and lectured at Harvard, the University of California at
Santa Barbara, the Center for Music Experiment at the University of
California at San Diego, and from 1962 to 1969 was on the faculty
of Brandeis University. He is currently professor of music and
chairperson of the music department at Wesleyan University.
Lucier has pioneered in many areas of music composition and
performance, including the notation of performers' physical
gestures, the use of brain waves in live musical performance, the
generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the
evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. In collaboration
with electronic designer John Fullemann, he recently created a
completely solar-powered sound piece in the foyer of the City
Savings Bank in Middletown, Conn.
He has also made music for the theatre, including the Broadway
production of John Roc's Fire! and the American Shakespeare
Festival production of Henry V. Several of his works can be heard
on CBS Odyssey, Mainstream, Source, Cramps (Italy), and Lovely
Music records.
Douglas Simon earned both a B.A. and an M.A. in music at Wesleyan
University, USA. He has composed music and sound for summer and
off-Broadway theatre productions. He owns and operates Studio
Consultants, Inc., a New York City firm engaged in the acoustic and
electronic design of recording studios. He conducted these
interviews with Lucier during the period (1968-78) in which most of
the scores included in Chambers were composed.
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