Series IV: Photographs

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{"value"=>"1920-2014", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1920/2014"}
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{"value"=>"Series IV: Photographs"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The photographs document much of Lucier's life and career. Arranged alphabetically by topic, event, or composition, they show rehearsals; performances; recording sessions; installations; lectures; seminars; formal and informal portraits of Lucier; Lucier with his teachers Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, and Milton Babbitt; collaborators and colleagues such as John Cage, Christian Wolff, Robert Ashley, Robert Wilson, and Steve Reich; and Lucier with family and friends. The series consists of prints, negatives, contact sheets, and digital images Some of the digital images are scans of analog originals, some of which are not present in the collection. The print photograph files may also hold letters, programs, notes, or clippings.</p> <p>Lucier's early career is represented by images of his time in Europe in the early 1960s on a Fulbright scholarship, and his time at Brandeis University. Many files document contemporary music concerts and festivals around the world.</p> <p>Some compositions, installations, or events have photographs from multiple performances and locations. These include <span class=\"title\">Bird and Person Dyning</span>, <span class=\"title\">Chambers</span>, <span class=\"title\">Music for Pure Waves, Bass Drums, and Acoustic Pendulums</span>, <span class=\"title\">Music for Solo Performer</span>, <span class=\"title\">Music on a Long Thin Wire</span>, <span class=\"title\">Music for Snare Drum, Pure Wave Oscillators, and One or More Reflective Surfaces</span>, <span class=\"title\">Queen of the South</span>, <span class=\"title\">Solar Sounder I</span>, <span class=\"title\">Sound On Paper</span>, and meetings and performances of the Sonic Arts Union.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Alphabetical.</p>"}
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1920
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1920
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2014
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1920
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2014

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  1. Alternative Museum
  2. Ashley, Robert
  3. Aspen
  4. Berlin
  5. Brandeis University [3/1]
  6. Cage, John
  7. Chambers: Scores by Alvin Lucier
  8. Composition Seminar
  9. Cry Dr. Chicago
  10. Curtis, Charles
  11. Daadgalerie
  12. Electric Circus
  13. Europe
  14. Extended Voices Recording Session
  15. Family and Friends [3/1]
  16. Florence, Italy
  17. Fulbright Scholarship, Europe
  18. Hurd State Park
  19. Iceland
  20. India and Japan
  21. Installations [16/2]
  22. Kiel, Germany
  23. Lucier, Alvin [3/2]
  24. Marcella's Glass Table in Winter
  25. Moscow
  26. Music in Real and Imaginary Spaces
  27. Musikprotokoll Festival, Austria
  28. Panorama
  29. Performances [21/2]
  30. Reich, Steve
  31. Risonanzen Festival, Berlin
  32. Rozart Mix by John Cage
  33. Sferics [2/3]
  34. Sol Hewitt and Alvin Lucier: A Collaboration
  35. Sonic Arts Union [4/1]
  36. Tan, Margaret Leng
  37. Tanglewood Music Center
  38. Viitasaari, Finland
  39. Wesleyan University [4/1]
  40. Wilson, Robert