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Catalogue number

BLACKTRUFFLE109


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Black

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-10-13

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4250101455698


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Black LP

Artist

Alvin Lucier

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Modern Composition

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Black Truffle

Alvin Lucier was a composer, writer, and visual artist born on May 14, 1931 in Nashua, New Hampshire. He studied at Yale and Brandeis University and received a Fulbright Scholarship to spend two years in Rome. From 1962 to 1970, he taught at Brandeis where he conducted the Brandeis University Chamber Chorus dedicated to new music.
Lucier was a pioneer in various aspects of music composition and performance. His innovations included notating performers' physical gestures, utilizing brain waves in live performances, generating visual imagery through sound in vibrating media, and creating room acoustics for musical purposes. He extensively showcased his sound installations across the United States, Europe, and Asia while also contributing articles to books and periodicals. One of his notable works is the book "Chambers," co-authored with Douglas Simon and published by Wesleyan University Press.
Artists similar to Alvin Lucier include *Alvin Curran*, *Pauline Oliveros*, *Bernard Parmegiani*, *François Bayle*, *Robert Ashley*, *David Behrman*, *Vladimir Ussachevsky*, *Phill Niblock*, *Tod Dockstader*, *James Tenney*, *Morton Subotnick*, *Luc Ferrari*, *Morton Feldman*, Éliane Radigue', 'Ingram Marshall', 'Karlheinz Stockhausen

Black Truffle Records is an Australian experimental/improv/noise/abstract/etc. music label, founded in 2009 by Oren Ambarchi. Launched with a couple of Ambarchi's long out-of-print vinyl reissues on CD, Black Truffle then released a remastered version of seminal 'Afternoon Tea' collaborative album with new artwork. The most well-known releases on the label are three albums exclusively produced for Black Truffle by Keiji Haino, Jim O'Rourke, and Oren Ambarchi trio. Other notable collaborations that Ambarchi recorded for his own label include 'The Mortimer Trap' with Thomas Brinkmann and 'Cat's Squirrel' with Masami Akita.

All releases on Black Truffle feature artworks designed by either Stephen O'Malley or Lasse Marhaug.

The French black truffle is considered the finest of the edible fungi and has a place in gastronomy alongside saffron, caviar, foie gras, and the finest wines. Widely regarded as the jewel of French cooking, it is prized for its unique flavor and intoxicating aroma. At Black Truffle Records, our resident chef has discovered that finding this "diamond of the kitchen" requires using a divining stick while facing into the sun.

Newest Listed Items

Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II continues Black Truffle’s documentation
of the late work of legendary American experimental composer Alvin Lucier, who
sadly passed away in 2021 at the age of 90. Like the first volume of the series, the
two works recorded here were written for The Ever Present Orchestra, an ensemble
founded in Zürich in 2016 to perform Lucier’s work exclusively. At the core of the
music Lucier wrote for the ensemble is the electric guitar, an instrument he began to
explore in 2013.

Works For The Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II

Music GB

Discover Works For The Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II by Alvin Lucier. Legendary experimental composer's late work on vinyl from Black Truffle.