1. Alvin Lucier: August Moon (2015)
2. Morton Feldman: Two Instruments (1958)
3. Alvin Lucier: Trio For Clarinet, Cello & Tuba (2008)
4. Morton Feldman: Three Clarinets, Cello And Piano (1971)
5. Alvin Lucier: Step, Slide and Sustain (2014)
6. Morton Feldman: Durations 2 (1960)
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.”