Festival programme

Alvin Lucier 85th Birthday Festival

Exhibition

Prelude
No Ideas but in Things – 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
10–14 October 2016

Collaboration
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #730 
Performance: Students of the ZHdK “Gestalterisches Propädeutikum” (preparatory art and design course) led by Ulrich Binder.

Concerts

  • 18:00
    Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra
    (1988, A. Lucier) for solo amplified triangle, Laszlo Tömösközi, 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 Céline Vonderwahl, violin/Tabea Frei, viola/Nadja Reich, cello/Claudio Landolt and José 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
    Première: 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
    Premières of the Alvin Lucier tribute pieces:
    Daniel Wolf (31 Spectral Madrigals for Alvin Lucier), Markus Trunk, Roland Dahinden and Hauke Harder

  • 18:00
    European première: 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 première: Braid
    (2012, A. Lucier) for alto flute, clarinet, english horn, and string quartet, led by Felix Profos with Nora Peterhans and Céline 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 première: 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 Tömösközi, bowed vibraphone. First ever performance with electric guitars instead of banjos.

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

    20:00
    Première: 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