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Lucier, Alvin

LC control no.n 79139186
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LC classificationML410.L8973 Biography
Personal name headingLucier, Alvin
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Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1931-05-14
Death date2021-12-02
Place of birthNashua (N.H.)
Field of activityComposition (Music)
Art music
Profession or occupationComposers
Found inHis Action music for piano, c1967.
Grovemusic WWW site, June 20, 2002 (Lucier, Alvin (Augustus); b. May 14, 1931, Nashua, NH; American composer)
Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1931)
Lucier, A. Clocker, 1994: label (Clocker) container (for amplified clock, performer with galvanic skin response sensor and digital delay system)
New York Times, December 1, 2021, viewed online December 2, 2021 (Alvin Lucier, an influential experimental composer whose works focused less on traditional musical elements like melody and harmony than on the scientific underpinnings of sound and of listeners' perceptions, died on Wednesday [December 1] at his home in Middletown, Conn., where he had taught for decades at Wesleyan University)
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