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{"value"=>"<p>This series offers a comprehensive view of Lucier's music over five decades, containing around sixty Lucier compositions and sound installations. Other recordings document performances, interviews, lectures, and other projects, some unidentified. The series is arranged in the following subdivisions: compositions; performances; sound installations; radio broadcasts; commercial recordings and recording sessions; interviews; lectures; teaching; other projects; works by other composers; Native American music recordings; natural or ambient sounds; and Lucier family home sound recordings and films. There is some overlap between the subdivisions for compositions, commercial recording sessions, and performances. Researchers should check all three for particular works.</p> <p>The recordings include works such as <span class=\"title\">Music for Solo Performer</span>, <span class=\"title\">I am Sitting in a Room</span>, <span class=\"title\">Bird and Person Dyning</span>, <span class=\"title\">Music on a Long Thin Wire</span>, <span class=\"title\">Solar Sounder I</span>, <span class=\"title\">Sferics</span>, <span class=\"title\">Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas</span>, <span class=\"title\">Vespers</span>, <span class=\"title\">Small Waves</span>, and many others. Some of the sound recordings are of electronic or tape-manipulated components of works, works-in-progress, and experiments that may never have been used in a finished piece. Studio recordings from the early-2000s onward often have ProTools recording session files as well as playable recordings.</p> <p>The radio broadcasts contain programs from Germany and the Netherlands. The commercial recordings contain in-progress and final mixes and masters of releases, such as <span class=\"title\">Crossings</span> (1990), <span class=\"title\">Navigations for Strings-Small Waves</span> (2003), <span class=\"title\">Almost New York</span> (2006), <span class=\"title\">Ever Present</span> (2007), and <span class=\"title\">Orchestra Works</span> (2013).</p> <p>The interviews include conversations over a decade between Lucier and Douglas Simon that were the basis for their book <span class=\"title\">Chambers: Scores by Alvin Lucier</span>. Also present are solo interviews with Lucier from the 1960s through 2008; an interview with Lucier and the other members of the Sonic Arts Union; and Lucier's conversations with figures such as Viola Farber, James Tenney, Christian Wolff, Hugh Aitken, and La Monte Young.</p> <p>The lectures include one from 1969, but most are from the 1980s to 1990s. They include symposia and a seminar as well. The Other Project recordings contain titles that do not appear on lists of Lucier's compositions, such as <span class=\"title\">Afternoon of a Faun</span>, <span class=\"title\">Empty Spaces</span>, and many unidentified projects. The Other Projects also include the documentary film <span class=\"title\">No Ideas But in Things: The Composer Alvin Lucier</span>, recordings of the Brandeis Choral Union under Lucier's direction, and the three \"Dr. Chicago\" films in which Lucier appeared, directed by George Manupelli.</p> <p>Many of the audio and moving image items have, in addition to the six-digit identification code assigned by the library, a two or three-digit code which was assigned by Lucier.</p>"}