audio OM5OMEnsembleLucierIslands sound 2004-02-11 17:19:32 Alvin Lucier The Other Minds Ensemble perform Alvin Lucier's composition Island (1998) at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at Cowell Theater in San Francisco. The Other Minds Ensemble George Brooks, soprano saxophone Larry London, clarinet Robin May, English horn Susan Radcliff, trumpet Toyoji Tomita, trombone The presentation of this work was made possible with the support of Stephen Weaver. Islands, for wind instruments and amplified snare drums, is the latest in a series of works by Alvin Lucier that explore the spatial characteristics of sound waves in enclosed spaces. In Directions of Sounds from the Bridge (1978), flashlights deployed around a cello are activated by sounds which flow out of the instrument in different directions for different frequencies; in Self-Portrait (1989) air flow from the lip of a flute causes the blades of a wind anemometer to spin at various speeds. In Islands sound waves from five wind instruments cause a collection of snare drums, scattered throughout the room, to resonate and sound. As the sounds from the instruments flow out into the space, the drums react singly and in combinations, determined by pitch, loudness, directivity of the wave-flow and the architecture of the room. Islands, completed in November of 1998, was written for the United Berlin Ensemble and is dedicated to Christian Wolff. It was first performed on February 2nd, 1999, at the Schauspielhaus, Berlin, on the "Woher-wohin? Komponieren heute" series. - Alvin Lucier http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0/ 1999-03-25 00:00:00 other_minds bernard@otherminds.org 2004-02-11 17:19:32 bernard 0 00:15:22 2004-04-21 16:48:31 bernard All Other Minds programs available, with additional print and photo materials, at http://www.radiOM.org. Coming soon you will be able to view our complete list of titles not yet digitized at http://www.radiOM.org/titles. Other Minds Other Minds 1 Avantgarde;20th Century Classical Other Minds 2520 audio_music1