Bang on a Can

Alvin Lucier was born in 1931 in Nashua, New Hampshire and graduated from Brandeis University, after which he spent two years in Rome on a Fulbright Scholarship. Lucier taught at Brandeis and conducted the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus. He now teaches at Wesleyan University where is a John Spencer Camp Professor of Music. Lucier has been a pioneer in many areas of music composition and performance, including the notation of performers' physical gestures, the use of brain waves in live performance, the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media, and the evocation of room acoustics for musical purposes. His recent works include a series of sound installations and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, and orchestra in which, by means of close tunings with pure tones, sound waves are caused to spin through space.