Alvin Lucier was born in 1931 in Nashua, New Hampshire, educated at Yale and Brandeis universities and later spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. From 1962 to 1970 he taught at Brandeis, and in 1966 he co-founded the Sonic Arts Union with Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Gordon Mumma. From 1968 to 2011 he taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. Lucier lectures and performs extensively in Asia, Europe and The United States, and has collaborated…
Alvin Lucier was born in 1931 in Nashua, New Hampshire, educated at Yale and Brandeis universities and later spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. From 1962 to 1970 he taught at Brandeis, and in 1966 he co-founded the Sonic Arts Union with Robert Ashley, David Behrman and Gordon Mumma. From 1968 to 2011 he taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
Lucier lectures and performs extensively in Asia, Europe and The United States, and has collaborated with John Ashbury and Robert Wilson, among others. His works have been performed by ensembles like the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Alter Ego Ensemble, Ensemble Pamplemousse, International Contemporary Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort and Ensemble neoN. He has been a guest at the Tectonics festival in Glasgow and Reykjavik, the Ultima festival in Oslo, the Louvre in Paris, the Time of Music festival in Viitasaari, Finland and the Venice biennale, to name but a few.
Alvin Lucier was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States and received an Honorary Doctorate of Arts from the University of Plymouth, England. In November 2011 Wesleyan University celebrated Alvin Lucier’s retirement with a three-day festival of his works.
Aug. 2016