The setting: a small room. Two tape recorders. Alvin Lucier records a short text on one, plays it back over the speakers … and records that. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat …Each generation has less voice and more of the room’s resonance: the voice slowly becomes dissolves into hisses, howls, and metallic gonglike noises. The only recording [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2004’
The EMUSIC-L Listening Page
Now online for your enjoyment: the Listening page.
I’m in the process of collecting up interesting pieces from around the Net. “Interesting” is subject to my own peculiar tastes. Feel free to send me pointers to items of interest; I’ll only put up the stuff I like, and I won’t slam it if I don’t like [...]
The David Tudor website
Full of fascinating ideas about Tudor’s performance style, diagrams of some of the beautiful “scores”, and a lovely, lovely page of the wonderful tangles of electronics he and his collaborators have used. The story about setting the house speakers afire was particularly fun.
http://www.emf.org/tudor/