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    Festival programme

    Alvin Lucier 85th Birthday Festival

    Exhibition

    Prelude
    No Ideas but in Things โ€“ The Composer Alvin Lucier

    Q&A with film makers Viola Rusche and Hauke Harder.
    9 October 2016

    Installations
    Music on a Long Thin Wire (1977, A. Lucier) Kaskadenhalle
    Directions of Sounds from the Bridge (1978, A. Lucier) 5.K10
    Empty Vessels (1997, A. Lucier) 7.K10
    10โ€“14 October 2016

    Collaboration
    Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #730 
    Performance: Students of the ZHdK โ€œGestalterisches Propรคdeutikumโ€ (preparatory art and design course) led by Ulrich Binder.

    Concerts

    • 12 October 2016

      18:00
      Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
      (1988, A. Lucier) for solo amplified triangle, Laszlo Tรถmรถskรถzi, Triangel
      Small Waves
      (1997, A. Lucier) for string quartet, trombone, piano and two water pourers with Roland Dahinden, trombone/Hildegard Kleeb, piano/Nora Peterhans and Cรฉline Vonderwahl, violin/Tabea Frei, viola/Nadja Reich, cello/Claudio Landolt and Josรฉ Pino, water pourers

      20:00
      Two Circles
      (2012, A. Lucier) for flute, Bb clarinet, violin, cello, and piano, led by Felix Profos with Patrycja Pakiela, flute/Soraya Dos Santos, clarinet/Nora Peterhans, violin/Nadja Reich, cello/Lora-Evelin Vakova, piano
      Premiรจre: Step, Slide and Sustain
      (2014, A. Lucier) for horn in f, cello, and piano, Trio Retro DiscoSlices (2007, A. Lucier) for cello and orchestra, Charles Curtis

      Interval
      Music for Solo Performer
      (1965, A. Lucier) for enormously amplified brain waves and percussion, Alvin Lucier

      23:00
      80 plus for Alvin Lucier
      (2011, Christian Wolff) for any players, led by Lars Mlekusch with Joan Jordi, Oliver Arcos, Charles Ng, Manuela Villiger, Pisol Manatchinapisit, Vincent Magnin, Amit Dubester, Vera Wahl, Paulina Pitenko, Kathrine Oseid and Etienne Vaillend, saxophone/Roland Dahinden, trombone/Hildegard Kleeb, piano/Moritz Muellenbach, cello/Gary Schmalzl, guitar
      Duo
      (Christian Wolff), Charles Curtis
      Only
      (1947, Morton Feldman) for solo voice, Joan La Barbara
      Premiรจres of the Alvin Lucier tribute pieces:
      Daniel Wolf (31 Spectral Madrigals for Alvin Lucier), Markus Trunk, Roland Dahinden and Hauke Harder

    • 13 October 2016

      18:00
      European premiรจre: Palimpsest
      (2014, A. Lucier) text by Lydia Davis, Joan La Barbara

      20:00
      Bird and Person Dyning
      (A. Lucier) for performer with microphones, amplifiers, loudspeakers and electronic birdcall, Alvin Lucier
      Criss-Cross
      (2013, A. Lucier) for two electric guitars, Stephen O'Malley und Oren Ambarchi
      Charles Curtis
      (2002, A. Lucier) for cello with slow sweep pure wave oscillators, Charles Curtis

      Interval
      In Memoriam Jon Higgins
      (1984, A.Lucier) for clarinet and pure wave oscillator, Anthony Burr
      European premiรจre: Braid
      (2012, A. Lucier) for alto flute, clarinet, english horn, and string quartet, led by Felix Profos with Nora Peterhans and Cรฉline Vonderwahl, violin / Tabea Frei, viola / Nadja Reich, cello / Patrycja Pakiela, alto flute/Soraya Dos Santos, clarinet / Megumi Nakajima, English horn

      23:00
      Nothing is Real
      (1990, A. Lucier) for piano, amplified teapot, tape recorder and miniature sound system, Johannes Herrmann, piano
      Music for Piano and one or more Snare Drums
      (1992, A. Lucier) Hildegard Kleeb
      European premiรจre: Hanover
      (2015, A. Lucier) for violin, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, 3 banjos, piano, and bowed vibraphone, led by Lars Mlekusch with Charles Ng, alto saxophone / Joan Jordi Oliver Arcos tenor saxophone / Oren Ambarchi, Stephen O'Malley, Gary Schmalzl, electric guitar/Felix Profos, piano / Laszlo Tรถmรถskรถzi, bowed vibraphone. First ever performance with electric guitars instead of banjos.

    • 14 October 2016

      18:00
      One Arm Bandits
      (2016, A. Lucier) Charles Curtis

      20:00
      Premiรจre: Double Rainbow
      (2016, A. Lucier) for voice and slow sweep pure wave oscillator, Joan La Barbara
      Panorama
      (1993, A. Lucier) for trombone and piano, Roland Dahinden, Posaune / Hildegard Kleeb, Klavier
      Ever Present
      (2002, A. Lucier) for flute, saxophone, and piano with slow sweep pure wave oscillators, led by Lars Mlekusch with Amit Dubester, alto saxophone/Yue Lin, flute/Darya Piatrova, piano

      Interval
      I am Sitting in a Room

      (1970, A. Lucier) for voice and electromagnetic tape, Alvin Lucier

      12 midnight
      Stephen O'Malley 
      Solo concert

    • Festival programme (download)
    Installation โ€œEmpty Vesselsโ€, 1997
    Installation โ€œDirections of Sounds from the Bridgeโ€, 1978
    Installation ยซMusic on a Long Thin Wireยป, 1977
    Sol LeWitt, Walldrawing #730