Tracklist
1 | August Moon (2015) | 15:18 | |
2 | Two Instruments (1958) | 7:27 | |
3 | Trio for Clarinet Cello and Tuba (2008) | 12:29 | |
4 | Three Clarinets Cello and Piano (1960) | 11:05 | |
5 | Step Slide and Sustain (2014) | 14:27 | |
6 | Durations 2 (1960) | 7:23 |
Anthony Burr and Charles Curtis present this collection of curated compositions from Alvin Lucier and Morton Feldman. Two Lucier pieces, August Moon and Trio For Clarinet, Cello & Tuba are presented here for the first time. Liner notes are excerpted from a lecture on Morton Feldman given by Alvin Lucier.
"For Feldman, dynamics serve an acoustical function. When he mitigates a piano attack he reduces that spike of noise that’s at the onset of every piano sound leaving only the sinusoidal pure after-sound. It’s as if he invented electronic music with the piano." Alvin Lucier from liner notes.
"Lucier manages to hear a layer of acoustical physics in Feldman’s music that perhaps no one else would hear. He’s hearing something in Feldman that is actually coming from his own musical world; in a way, hearing his own music in Feldman’s, and drawing inspiration from that."