<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><font size="2"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/alvin-lucier/capsula">Podcast with Alvin Lucier</a><br></b></span><br>Link: <a href="http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/alvin-lucier/capsula" target="_blank">http://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/alvin-lucier/capsula<br></a><br></span></font>A key figure in post-Cage experimental music, Lucier is one of a kind, a composer who, as James Tenney says, makes his fellow musicians find themselves “having to revise our basic (and often unconscious) assumptions – our self-evident axioms about music.” Driven by a curiosity to understand “how things work” (an innocent and unprejudiced curiosity that Tenney compares to that of a child), Lucier always seems ready to disappear within sound. It is as if his fascination with the sound phenomenon leads him to avoid interfering in its manifestation. His work is thus by no means based on self-expression or on compositional interventions. Instead, he allows sounds to “be themselves” without pushing or directing them in any way.</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">In this podcasr, Alvin Lucier talks about the need to listen carefully, the composers that have accompanied and influenced him over the years, and the role of space and technology in his work, among many other things. Near the end, he also explains some interesting facts about “I am Sitting in a Room”, one if his best known and most enigmatic works.<b><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"> </span></b></span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">Background music: "Music on a Long Thin Wire 1", 1977</b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">Timeline</b><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">00:00</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> Not just listening</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">00:46</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> Revealing implicit sounds</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">02:53</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> Let it happen: on "Music for Piano and Magnetic Strings" </span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">07:18</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> Transparency of sounds</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">08:35</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> The question of space</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">10:48</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> Music that happens in a loudspeaker</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">13:16</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> Letting the players play</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">14:59</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> "I'm Sittting in a Room"... live: something wonderful about real time</span><br style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><b style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal">17:30</b><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"> "All I wanted to do is to tell people what I was doing"<br><br></span></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(255,0,0)"><b>Enjoy!</b></span><br></span></span></font><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>