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    Ever Present Orchestra

    Alvin Lucier and members of the Ever Present Orchestra.
    Alvin Lucier and members of the Ever Present Orchestra.
    • Line Up
    • Repertoire
    • Concerts
    • Press clippings
    • Academic Exchange

    The Ever Present Orchestra is dedicated to the presentation of the exceptional work of Alvin Lucier. The orchestra attempts to make Lucier’s beating-pattern-focused instrumental music approachable to a wide audience with its uncommon instrumentation of four electric guitars, three saxophones, four violins and piano. Along with classical musicians, the presence of prominent Lucier interpreters such as Stephen O’Malley and Oren Ambarchi, allows for the ensemble to appeal to a wider audience than the conventional contemporary music scene.
    The Orchestra was founded by Bernhard Rietbrock during the 85th Birthday Festival of Alvin Lucier at the Zurich University of the Arts. It was named after Lucier’s composition ‘Ever Present’ (2002). Its unusual instrumentation came about as a result of the adaption for electric guitars of the Lucier piece Hannover (2015). Alvin Lucier kindly supports this initative, was involved in the naming of the Ever Present Orchestra, and has recently composed a new piece for the ensemble titled “Semcircle” (2017).

    Line Up

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    Repertoire

    Compositions by Alvin Lucier

    Double Helix (2018), Flight Path (2018), Tilted Arc (2018), Semicircle (2017), Hanover (2015), Braid (2012), Two Circles (2012), Criss-Cross (2013), Panorama II (Copied Lines) (2011), Shadow Lines (2013), Firewood (2013), August Moon (2015), Just Before Dark (2010), On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon (2000/2012)

    Concerts

    Alvin Lucier and the Ever Present Orchestra:
    Illuminated by the Moon Book/Record Release Tour 

    2017

    • 10 Oct: Berlin, St. Elisabeth Kirche
    • 7 Nov: Philadelphia Ars Nova Workshop, FringeArts
    • 8 Nov: New York City, Issue Project Room (plus performances by Joan La Barbara)
    • 9 Nov: New York City, Issue Project Room
    • 11 Nov: Boston, Non-Event, Laboratoire Cambridge supported by Swissnex
    • 12 Nov: Montreal, Concordia University, Black Box
    • 13 Nov: Chicago, Constellation

    2018

    • 27 March: Hongkong, Connecting Spaces
    • 29 March: Shanghai, Conservatory of Music (plus academic exchange, 30 March)
    • 1 April: Kyoto
    • 3 April: Tokyo, Superdeluxe 
    • 4 April: Tokyo, Superdeluxe 
       
    • 30 May: Cologne, Kunststation Sankt Peter
    • 31 May: Berlin, Universität der Künste, Joseph Joachim Saal
       
    • 20 July: New York, Issue Project Room, Sonic Arts Union Celebration
    • 21 July: New York, Issue Project Room, Sonic Arts Union Celebration
       
    • 4 October: Chur, Bündner Kunstmuseum
    • 17 October: New York, Issue Project Room
    • 23 October: Paris, St. Merry Church

    Upcoming events 2019

    • 12 March, London, Round Chapel (13 March, Academic Exchange ZHdK / Royal Academy of Music)
    • 22 March, Knoxville, Tennessee, Big Ears Festival 
    • 24 March: Knoxville/Tennessee: Big Ears Festival
    • 26 March: Los Angeles, RedCat in cooperation with California Institute of the Arts

    Press clippings

    Lucier «Illuminated by the Moon» Box-Set Rezensionen

    • Big Ears Festival
    • Boomkat
    • Forced Exposure
    • Kompakt
    • Blog The Hum
    • Tiny Mixtapes
    • Toneshift
    • The Four Oh Five
    • Two Good Ears
    • Obldada
    • HHV Mag
    • Kompakt

    Konzertbesprechungen

    • Tokio Konzertbesprechung von DJ Sniff
    • NYTimes Sonic Arts Union Festival Review: “Celebrating a Union that Rewired Classical Music”, Seth Colter Wall, 24.08.2018
    • The Wire, Nr. 416, October 2018: Sonic Arts Union Festival 2018, Konzertbesprechung, Kurt Gottschalk
    • MusikTexte 155, S. 97: Lucier Box Set und Berlin Konzert Review, Matthias R. Entreß 
    • Taz Konzertartikel mit Lucier Interview, Tim Caspar Boehme, 10.10.2017

    Academic Exchange

    Workshops   

    • On Experimental Composition Techniques and the Repertoire of Alvin Lucier (+ Performance Workshop) (Bernhard Rietbrock, Jan Thoben)
    • Instrumental Improvisation Workshop (Oren Ambarchi)
    • Alvin Lucier Score Analysis Workshop (Felix Profos, Bernhard Rietbrock, Jan Thoben)

    Lectures

    • Dieter Mersch, From Science to Art. Alvin Lucier’s Experimental Compositions as Artistic Research
    • Volker Straebel (UdK, Berlin), Experimental Music Beyond Sonification
    • Sabine Sanio (UdK, Berlin), The Musical Spaces of Alvin Lucier
    • Jan Thoben, Vibratory Alchemy: Science and the Senses in the Work of Alvin Lucier
    • Bernhard Rietbrock, Alvin Lucier and the Minimal Difference