Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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0:00 Introduction
1:00 I: Son of a Politician
4:25 II: Brainwave
14:23 III: The Acoustics of Space
33:55 IV: Music of Sight
39:13 V: Beats Me
📚 Sources/further reading:
“Chambers” by Alvin Lucier and Douglas Simon (Wesleyan University Press, 1980)
“Finding Oneself: Alvin Lucier and the Phenomenal Voice” by Brandon Labelle
“Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music” by Alvin Lucier (Wesleyan University Press, 2012)
"Cymatics" by Hans Jenny (republished by MACROmedia, 2001)
nwr-site-liner-notes.s3.amazonaws.com/80755.pdf
monoskop.org/images/f/fb/Alvin_Lucier_A_Celebration_2011.pdf
api-depositonce.tu-berlin.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/d59981bb-bd6d-4b8b-9be6-1e64c8804666/content
james-saunders.com/interview-with-alvin-lucier
bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2011/10/28/sound-messenger-for-composer-lucier/oONVJVKa1wdVB7pfc2fTpM/story.html
Stock footage for this video come from the documentary "Cymatics: The Healing Nature of Sound (1968)"
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Music:
- Alvin Lucier: “Music on a Long Thin Wire,” various performers, all unknown
- Alvin Lucier: “Music for Solo Performer” and “Bird and Person Dyning,” both performed by Alvin Lucier (from “Music with Roots in the Aether” by Robert Ashley)
- Alvin Lucier: “I Am Sitting in a Room,” performed by Alvin Lucier
- Alvin Lucier: “(Hartford) Memory Space,” performed by Joan La Barbara, Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey, Ron Shalom, Henry Birdsey, Zach Rowden, Trevor Saint, Ronald Kuivila, Emerson Jenisch, and Sam Boston: youtube.com/watch?v=En2BmQ79PpM
- Alvin Lucier: “Quasimodo The Great Lover,” realized by Laura Cameron, Matt Rogalsky, and an international team: mattrogalsky.bandcamp.com/track/quasimodo-the-great-lover-alvin-lucier
- Alvin Lucier: “Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators,” performed by Mischa Salkind-Pearl: youtube.com/watch?v=YezjsqCP4OA
- Alvin Lucier: “Crossings,” performed by Tim Ward, Chris Finkel, Thomas Ridenour, Roy Wiseman, Robert Dick, William Purvis, Claudia Coonce, Bob Bielecki, Philip Rucktenwald, Andrew Seligson, Veronica Salas, and Shem Giubbory: youtube.com/watch?v=JHkoZqmfwjI
- Alvin Lucier: “A Tribute to James Tenney,” performed by Matt Smiley: youtube.com/watch?v=mgbu_SzWpUo
- Alvin Lucier: “Exploration of the House,” performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov: youtube.com/watch?v=p5rYJVmALQk
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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0:00 Introduction
1:00 I: Son of a Politician
4:25 II: Brainwave
14:23 III: The Acoustics of Space
33:55 IV: Music of Sight
39:13 V: Beats Me
📚 Sources/further reading:
“Chambers” by Alvin Lucier and Douglas Simon (Wesleyan University Press, 1980)
“Finding Oneself: Alvin Lucier and the Phenomenal Voice” by Brandon Labelle
“Music 109: Notes on Experimental Music” by Alvin Lucier (Wesleyan University Press, 2012)
"Cymatics" by Hans Jenny (republished by MACROmedia, 2001)
nwr-site-liner-notes.s3.amazonaws.com/80755.pdf
monoskop.org/images/f/fb/Alvin_Lucier_A_Celebration_2011.pdf
api-depositonce.tu-berlin.de/server/api/core/bitstreams/d59981bb-bd6d-4b8b-9be6-1e64c8804666/content
james-saunders.com/interview-with-alvin-lucier
bostonglobe.com/arts/music/2011/10/28/sound-messenger-for-composer-lucier/oONVJVKa1wdVB7pfc2fTpM/story.html
Stock footage for this video come from the documentary "Cymatics: The Healing Nature of Sound (1968)"
----------
Music:
- Alvin Lucier: “Music on a Long Thin Wire,” various performers, all unknown
- Alvin Lucier: “Music for Solo Performer” and “Bird and Person Dyning,” both performed by Alvin Lucier (from “Music with Roots in the Aether” by Robert Ashley)
- Alvin Lucier: “I Am Sitting in a Room,” performed by Alvin Lucier
- Alvin Lucier: “(Hartford) Memory Space,” performed by Joan La Barbara, Daniel Fishkin, Cleek Schrey, Ron Shalom, Henry Birdsey, Zach Rowden, Trevor Saint, Ronald Kuivila, Emerson Jenisch, and Sam Boston: youtube.com/watch?v=En2BmQ79PpM
- Alvin Lucier: “Quasimodo The Great Lover,” realized by Laura Cameron, Matt Rogalsky, and an international team: mattrogalsky.bandcamp.com/track/quasimodo-the-great-lover-alvin-lucier
- Alvin Lucier: “Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators,” performed by Mischa Salkind-Pearl: youtube.com/watch?v=YezjsqCP4OA
- Alvin Lucier: “Crossings,” performed by Tim Ward, Chris Finkel, Thomas Ridenour, Roy Wiseman, Robert Dick, William Purvis, Claudia Coonce, Bob Bielecki, Philip Rucktenwald, Andrew Seligson, Veronica Salas, and Shem Giubbory: youtube.com/watch?v=JHkoZqmfwjI
- Alvin Lucier: “A Tribute to James Tenney,” performed by Matt Smiley: youtube.com/watch?v=mgbu_SzWpUo
- Alvin Lucier: “Exploration of the House,” performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ilan Volkov: youtube.com/watch?v=p5rYJVmALQk
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
----------
Contact Information:
Questions and comments can be directed to:
nerdofclassical [at] gmail.com
Facebook:
facebook.com/classicalnerd
Instagram:
instagram.com/the_classical_nerd
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All images and audio in this video are for educational purposes only and are not intended as copyright infringement. If you have a copyright concern, please contact me using the above information.
![How to Run a Summer Festival [with Connecticut Summerfest co-founders Gala Flagello and Aaron Price]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QW-iMaRX4eE/mqdefault.jpg "How to Run a Summer Festival [with Connecticut Summerfest co-founders Gala Flagello and Aaron Price]
Thanks again to Gala and Aaron for their time!
Connecticut Summerfest: https://www.ctsummerfest.org/
Gala Flagello: https://www.galaflagello.com
Aaron Price: http://aaronpricemusic.com/
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2 in E minor, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
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![The Theremin Cello [with Dr. Jonathan Golove]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q_emtOWcY08/mqdefault.jpg "The Theremin Cello [with Dr. Jonathan Golove]
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0:00 Introduction
0:21 History
6:06 How it Works
Thanks again to Dr. Golove for both his time and for lending me the space-control theremin seen briefly here and (more thoroughly) in my previous video.
📚 FURTHER WATCHING:
Mental Radio by Jonathan Golove may be watched, in its entirety, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOTKMR0vN6Q
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, sight-read by Jonathan Golove, theremin cello
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![Keyboards of the Sigal Music Museum [with Dr. Tom Strange]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QigOvnKHQhc/mqdefault.jpg "Keyboards of the Sigal Music Museum [with Dr. Tom Strange]
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Special thanks to Anne Q. Barr, Marie Q. Henry, and (of course) Dr. Tom Strange for their crucial roles in helping to make this incredible visit happen. Visit their Web site at https://sigalmusicmuseum.org
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Thomas Little: “C’est la Vie” from the Sonata for Violin and Piano (2018), performed by Michele Zimmerman and George Mobley and available for purchase on Bandcamp: https://lentovivace.bandcamp.com/album/sonata-for-violin-and-piano
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, arranged for harpsichord and performed on the fly by Thomas Little
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![Arthur Honegger: The Humble Craftsman [Les Six, Pt. 4/7]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SVqSG07Lzko/mqdefault.jpg "Arthur Honegger: The Humble Craftsman [Les Six, Pt. 4/7]
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📚 Sources/further reading:
“I am a Composer” by Arthur Honegger, translated by Wilson Clough and Allan Willman (Faber and Faber, 1966)
“Les Six: The French Composers and Their Mentors Jean Cocteau and Erik Satie,” edited by Robert Shapiro (Peter Owen Publishers, 2011)
“Arthur Honegger” by Paul Landormy and Fred Rothwell (The Musical Times, Vol. 70, No. 1039): https://www.jstor.org/stable/914732
“A Study of Arthur Honegger” by A. G. Browne (Music & Letters, Vol. 10, No. 4): https://www.jstor.org/stable/726129
“Darius Milhaud in the United States, 1940–71: Transatlantic Constructions of Musical Identity” by Erin K. Maher (PhD dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2011)
“An Analysis of Honegger’s Cello Concerto (1929): A Return to Simplicity?” by Denika Lam Kleinmann (DMA dissertation, University of North Texas, 2014): https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500189/m2/1/high_res_d/dissertation.pdf
Classical Nerd is a video series covering music history, theoretical concepts, and techniques, hosted by composer, pianist, and music history aficionado Thomas Little.
Music:
- Arthur Honegger: Sept Pièces Brèves (1920), performed by John Robson [free recordings courtesy pianosociety.com]
- Thomas Little: Dance! #2, performed by Rachel Fellows, Michael King, and Bruce Tippette
- Arthur Honegger: Concerto da Camera for Flute, English Horn and Strings (1948), performed by Fernand Dufrène, Paul Taillefer, and Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française conducted by Georges Tzipine [original upload: 0iphzdVU9kE]
- Arthur Honegger: Sonata for Cello and Piano (1920), performed by Valérie Aimard and Cédric Tiberghien [original upload: aqSFBwBC0S0]
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