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Alvin Lucier

Person · male · United States · Nashua · born 1931 · died 2021 · recording since 1967

American composer of experimental music and sound installations (1931–2021)

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Also known as Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. · 阿爾文·路希爾

Debut: 1967
Recording span: 54 years
Release groups: 36
Awards: 1
Timeline events: 39
Wiki language versions: 15

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Timeline

39 events▣ Album 35◦ Birth 1✦ Award 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1

1930s
1. 14 May 1931 · Birth
  Born 1931-05-14
  source: wikidata
1960s
1. 1960 · Award
  Won: Fulbright Scholarship
  source: wikidata
2. 1967 · Debut release
  Debut release: Extended Voices
  First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1967 · Album
  Album: Extended Voices
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1970s
1. 1976 · Album
  Album: Bird and Person Dyning
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1980s
1. 1980 · Album
  Album: Music on a Long Thin Wire
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1981 · Album
  Album: I Am Sitting in a Room
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1982 · Album
  Album: Music for Solo Performer
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 1988 · Album
  Album: Sferics
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
1990s
1. 1990 · Album
  Album: Crossings
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 1994 · Album
  Album: Clocker
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 1997 · Album
  Album: Panorama
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 1997 · Album
  Album: With A Minimum of Means
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 1999 · Album
  Album: Theme
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2000s
1. 2001 · Album
  Album: Still Lives
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 2002 · Album
  Album: Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 2002 · Album
  Album: Vespers and Other Early Works
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 2003 · Album
  Album: Nothing Is Real...
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 2003 · Album
  Album: Navigations for Strings; Small Waves
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 2005 · Album
  Album: Wind Shadows
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. October 2005 · Album
  Album: Alvin Lucier
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 2007 · Album
  Album: Ever Present
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
9. 2009 · Album
  Album: Sferics / Music for Solo Performer
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2010s
1. 2010 · Album
  Album: Still And Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 2010 · Album
  Album: Alvin Lucier
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 2013 · Album
  Album: Orchestra Works
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 2016 · Album
  Album: Alvin Lucier: Two Circles
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
5. 2017 · Album
  Album: Illuminated by the Moon
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 26 January 2018 · Album
  Album: Criss Cross / Hanover
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 30 November 2018 · Album
  Album: So You … (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice)
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 11 January 2019 · Album
  Album: Ricochet Lady
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2020s
1. 17 April 2020 · Album
  Album: String Noise
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
2. 15 May 2020 · Album
  Album: Vespers
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
3. 3 July 2020 · Album
  Album: Works for the Ever Present Orchestra
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
4. 1 December 2021 · Death
  Died 2021
  source: wikidata
5. 13 January 2023 · Album
  Album: Swing Bridge; Sizzles
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
6. 22 August 2023 · Album
  Album: One Arm Bandits
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
7. 13 October 2023 · Album
  Album: Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II
  Album
  source: musicbrainz
8. 10 September 2025 · Album
  Album: In Memoriam Alvin Lucier
  Album
  source: musicbrainz

Biography

English biography921 words · 8 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1355986015

Biography

Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. (May 14, 1931 – December 1, 2021) was an American experimental composer and sound artist. A long-time music professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, Lucier was a member of the influential Sonic Arts Union, which also included Robert Ashley, David Behrman, and Gordon Mumma. Much of Lucier's work explores psychoacoustic phenomena and the physical properties of sound.

Early life

Alvin Augustus Lucier Jr. was born on May 14, 1931, in Nashua, New Hampshire, to Kathryn E. Lemery, a pianist, and Alvin Augustus Lucier Sr., a lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Nashua from 1934 to 1937. He was educated in Nashua public and parochial schools; the Portsmouth Abbey School in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Yale University; and Brandeis University. In 1958 and 1959, Lucier studied under Lukas Foss and Aaron Copland at the Tanglewood Center. In 1960, he left for Rome on a Fulbright grant, where he befriended American expatriate composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski and witnessed performances by John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor, who inspired him to adopt a more experimental style. He returned from Rome in 1962 to take up a position at Brandeis as director of the University Chamber Chorus, which presented classical vocal works alongside modern compositions and new commissions.
At a 1963 Chamber Chorus concert at New York's Town Hall, Lucier met Gordon Mumma and Robert Ashley, experimental composers who were also directors of the ONCE Festival. A year later, Mumma and Ashley invited the Chamber Chorus to the ONCE Festival in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in 1966 Lucier reciprocated by inviting Mumma, Ashley, and David Behrman to Brandeis for a concert of their works. The four then embarked on a tour of the United States and Europe as the Sonic Arts Group; at Ashley's suggestion, the name was later changed to the Sonic Arts Union. After performing and touring together for a decade, the Sonic Arts Union became inactive in 1976.
In 1970, Lucier left Brandeis for Wesleyan University, where he would remain until his retirement. In 1972, Lucier became a musical director of the Viola Farber Dance Company, a position he held until 1979.

Personal life

Lucier was married to his first wife, Mary, until their divorce in 1972. He then married Wendy Stokes; they had one daughter and remained together until his death.
Lucier died at his home in Middletown, Connecticut, on December 1, 2021, at age 90, from complications of a fall.

I Am Sitting in a Room

One of Lucier's most important and best-known works is I Am Sitting in a Room (1969), in which Lucier records himself narrating a text, and then plays the recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since every enclosed area has a characteristic resonance (e.g., between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are gradually emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself. The recited text describes this process in action. It begins, “I am sitting in a room, different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice…”, and concludes with “I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have,” referring to his own stuttering.

Other works

Other key pieces from Lucier's oeuvre include North American Time Capsule (1966), which employed a prototype vocoder to manipulate elements of speech; Music On A Long Thin Wire (1977), in which a piano wire is strung across a room and activated by an amplified oscillator and electromagnets; Crossings (1982), in which tones play across a steadily rising sine wave to produce beat frequencies; the series Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas (1973–74), in which beat frequencies between sine waves and acoustic instruments create "troughs" and "valleys" of sound and silence; and Clocker (1978), which uses biofeedback and a digital delay unit.
In 2025, a new musical exhibit based on cerebral organoids cultured from Lucier's white blood cells was opened at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. The cerebral organoids made from Lucier's DNA emitted electrical signals that triggered various mallets connected to brass plates, creating music. Lucier voluntarily arranged for the project so that he could continue to create music after his death.

Films

1976 - Music With Roots in the Aether: Opera for Television. Tape 3: Alvin Lucier. Produced and directed by Robert Ashley. New York City: Lovely Music.
2012 - NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS. Produced and directed by Viola Rusche and Hauke Harder.

Listening

Lucier on UBUWeb – includes original 1969 recording of I Am Sitting In A Room.
Music for Piano with One or More Snare Drums (1990) performed by Hildegard Kleeb.
Island (1998) performed by The Other Minds Ensemble at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
Nothing Is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever) (1990) performed by Margaret Leng Tan at the Other Minds Music Festival in 1999 at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco.
I Am Sitting in a Room. Recreation in 2005, Internet Archive.
I Am Sitting in a Room (1969). Performance by Trevor Cox from 2014 using the acoustics of the Inchindown oil tanks that hold the world record for the ‘longest echo‛.

Movies

Music with Roots in the Aether (1975) from UbuWeb
NO IDEAS BUT IN THINGS, by Viola Rusche and Hauke Harder

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.

Normalised profile metrics with percentile rank
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	15	72.5th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	36	91.9th
Studio albums	35	98.6th
Awards recorded	1	89th
Timeline events	39	98th
Recording span (years)	54	94.2th
Genres	13	98.2th

Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.

Discography (36 release groups · 35 studio albums)

Albums · 35

Extended Voices
1967 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 52:54
A1Sound Patterns4:00
A2North American Time Capsule 196710:18
A3Solo for Voice 212:52
B1She Was a Visitor5:46
B2Extended Voices11:05
B3Chorus and Instruments II5:05
B4Christian Wolff in Cambridge3:48
Bird and Person Dyning
1976 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 44:33
AThe Duke of York20:33
BBird and Person Dyning24:00
Music on a Long Thin Wire
1980 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 1:20:00
Disc 12 tracks · 40:30
AMusic on a Long Thin Wire20:00
BMusic on a Long Thin Wire20:30
Disc 22 tracks · 39:30
CMusic on a Long Thin Wire20:00
DMusic on a Long Thin Wire19:30
I Am Sitting in a Room
1981 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 45:00
AI Am Sitting in a Room, Part I21:50
BI Am Sitting in a Room, Part II23:10
Music for Solo Performer
1982 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 28:05
AMusic for Solo Performer13:20
BMusic for Solo Performer14:45
Sferics
1988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 32:50
A1Sferics8:22
A2Sounds on Paper8:28
BMusic for Pure Waves, Bass Drums, and Acoustic Pendulums16:00
Crossings
1990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 54:49
1In Memoriam Jon Higgins for Clarinet in A and Slow-Sweep Pure Wave Oscillator19:07
2Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings and Pure Wave Oscillator19:36
3Crossings for Small Orchestra With Slow-Sweep Pure Wave Oscillator16:06
Clocker
1994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 1 track · 44:10
1Clocker44:10
Panorama
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 57:17
1Wind Shadows17:23
2Music For Piano With One Or More Snare Drums9:19
3Music For Piano With Amplified Sonorous Vessels14:47
4Panorama15:48
With A Minimum of Means
1997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 1:05:43
1I Am Sitting In A Room23:05
2CXLI Greetings To La Monte Young16:52
3KATO NK 300: July 22, 1979, 10.30 A.M. - Liptó Street, Budapest25:46
Theme
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 57:02
1Music for Piano With Magnetic Strings23:04
2Theme18:49
3Music for Gamelan Instruments, Microphones, Amplifiers and Loudspeakers15:09
Still Lives
2001 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 53:19
1Music for Piano with Slow Sweep Pure Wave Oscillators16:31
2On the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon11:46
3Still Lives I. Sunlight Diamond2:38
4Still Lives II. Hammock2:40
5Still Lives III. Barbecue Grill4:54
6Still Lives IV. Lamp Shade2:39
7Still Lives V. Two Floor Tiles3:03
8Still Lives VI. Ferns3:26
9Still Lives VII. Bread Knife2:50
10Still Lives VIII. Chopsticks2:52
Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 2:06:32
Disc 16 tracks · 1:03:33
1Clarinet11:57
2Marimba12:07
3Viola7:59
4Voice11:37
5Xylophone11:19
6Violin Duet8:34
Disc 26 tracks · 1:02:59
1Flute10:03
2Glockenspiel12:36
3Cello7:55
4Horn11:49
5Vibraphone12:28
6Violin Solo8:08
Vespers and Other Early Works
2002 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:05:09
1Vespers15:59
2Chambers14:27
3North American Time Capsule10:42
4(Middletown) Memory Space16:39
5Elegy for Albert Anastasia7:22
Nothing Is Real...
2003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 59:24
1Distant Drums15:35
2Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra17:29
3The Sacred Fox4:27
4Opera With Objects11:25
5Nothing Is Real10:28
Navigations for Strings; Small Waves
2003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 1:11:05
1Navigations for Strings15:17
2Small Waves55:48
Wind Shadows
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 2:16:21
Disc 14 tracks · 59:03
1In Memoriam Stuart Marshall17:52
240 Rooms15:12
3In Memoriam John Higgins19:59
4Letters6:00
Disc 29 tracks · 1:17:18
1Q15:20
2A Tribute to James Tenney 13:08
3A Tribute to James Tenney 23:06
4A Tribute to James Tenney 33:05
5A Tribute to James Tenney 43:03
6A Tribute to James Tenney 53:11
7Bar Lazy J15:15
8Fideliotrio12:03
9Wind Shadows19:07
Alvin Lucier
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:36:25
Disc 14 tracks · 50:10
1In Memoriam Jon Higgins20:06
2“On the Carpet of Leaves Illuminated by the Moon”7:19
3Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, Part III: Number 1111:04
4Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas, Part I: Number 111:41
Disc 23 tracks · 46:15
1Charles Curtis13:46
2In Memoriam Stuart Marshall15:25
3Music for Cello With One or More Amplified Vases17:04
Ever Present
2007 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:04:53
1Piper13:05
2Fan12:05
39477:40
4Silver Streetcar For The Orchestra16:36
5Ever Present15:27
Sferics / Music for Solo Performer
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 47:26
1Sferics8:12
2Music for Solo Performer39:14
Still And Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas
2010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 48:59
1Marimba11:20
2Xylophone12:47
3Glockenspiel10:40
4Vibraphone14:12
Alvin Lucier
2010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 56:11
1Fideliotrio12:10
2Music for Piano With Magnetic Strings13:21
3Silver Streetcar for the Orchestra10:03
4Violynn9:38
5Opera With Objects10:59
Orchestra Works
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 1:16:04
1Diamonds for 1, 2, or 3 Orchestras23:40
2Slices28:03
3Exploration of the House24:21
Alvin Lucier: Two Circles
2016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:05:24
13 Translation of the Works of Maurizio Mochetti: No. 1, Arrow10:01
23 Translation of the Works of Maurizio Mochetti: No. 2, Counting People3:55
33 Translation of the Works of Maurizio Mochetti: No. 3, Rebounds2:36
4Two Circles18:18
5I Am Sitting in a Room18:26
6Fideliorio12:08
Illuminated by the Moon
2017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 3:23:37
Disc 12 tracks · 42:26
A1I Am Sitting in a Room18:20
B1Music for Solo Performer24:06
Disc 23 tracks · 34:09
C1Charles Curtis13:40
D1Double Rainbow12:08
D2Nothing Is Real (Strawberry Fields Forever)8:21
Disc 32 tracks · 33:52
E1Braid16:00
F1Two Circles17:52
Disc 42 tracks · 33:01
G1Hanover18:06
H1Step, Slide and Sustain14:55
Disc 51 tracks · 1:00:09
1One Arm Bandits1:00:09
Criss Cross / Hanover
2018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 34:21
ACriss Cross16:11
BHanover18:10
So You … (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice)
2018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 1 track · 1:00:23
1So You … (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice)1:00:23
Ricochet Lady
2019 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 1:06:52
1Ricochet Lady (Blum Hall)16:43
2Ricochet Lady (Chapel of the Holy Innocents)16:37
3Ricochet Lady (Basilica Hudson)16:41
4Ricochet Lady (Marine a Grain Elevator)16:51
String Noise
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 1:46:28
1Tapper52:22
2Love Song19:54
3Halo34:12
Vespers
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 30:16
1Vespers15:51
2Chambers14:25
Works for the Ever Present Orchestra
2020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 1:39:11
1Tilted Arc17:47
2Double Helix16:02
3EPO-512:12
4Semicircle18:36
5Two Circles18:24
6Braid16:10
Swing Bridge; Sizzles
2023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 1:01:51
1SIZZLES (1997) for organ, various drums & vibrating materials13:21
2SWING BRIDGE (2015) for organ, ensemble & pipe wavers36:21
3BONUS TRACK: SIZZLES, Take 612:09
One Arm Bandits
2023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 1:01:22
1I15:23
2II15:21
3III15:21
4IV15:17
Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II
2023 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 37:13
1Arrigoni Bridge21:09
2Flips16:04
In Memoriam Alvin Lucier
2025 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 40:32
1In Memoriam Jon Higgins20:21
2In Memoriam Stuart Marshall20:11

Album · 1

Album release groups, by first release date
Cover	Year	Title	Notes	First release
	2021	I Am Sitting in a RoomSearch Spotify Search YouTube Music Tracklist · 10 tracks · 3:56:55 Disc 12 tracks · 34:13 AI Am Sitting in a Room - 196911:08 BI Am Sitting in a Room - 197023:05 Disc 22 tracks · 36:57 CI Am Sitting in a Room - 199520:58 DI Am Sitting in a Room - 200515:59 Disc 32 tracks · 44:56 EI Am Sitting in a Room - 201826:00 FI Am Sitting in a Room - 201918:56 Disc 42 tracks · 1:13:29 1I Am Sitting in a Room - 200044:21 2I Am Sitting in a Room - 201229:08 Disc 52 tracks · 47:20 1I Am Sitting in a Room - 198637:18 2I Am Sitting in a Room - 199410:02	Compilation	14 May 2021

Stats & PK

Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Alvin Lucier head-to-head →

Alvin Lucier metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	15	72.5th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	36	91.9th
Studio albums	35	98.6th
Awards recorded	1	89th
Timeline events	39	98th
Recording span (years)	54	94.2th
Genres	13	98.2th

Awards & honours

Awards and honours, by year
Year	Award	Category	Result
1960	Fulbright Scholarship		won

Line-up

Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To	Role
Sonic Arts Union(band)	—	present

Where this record comes from

portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alvin_Lucier_%2825536346088%29.jpg
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d1e226c0-63b9-4c64-a533-e94ad21c5180
discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d1e226c0-63b9-4c64-a533-e94ad21c5180
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q449171
seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Lucier
biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Lucier

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Timeline

1930s

Born 1931-05-14

1960s

Won: Fulbright Scholarship

Debut release: Extended Voices

Album: Extended Voices

1970s

Album: Bird and Person Dyning

1980s

Album: Music on a Long Thin Wire

Album: I Am Sitting in a Room

Album: Music for Solo Performer

Album: Sferics

1990s

Album: Crossings

Album: Clocker

Album: Panorama

Album: With A Minimum of Means

Album: Theme

2000s

Album: Still Lives

Album: Still and Moving Lines of Silence in Families of Hyperbolas

Album: Vespers and Other Early Works

Album: Nothing Is Real...

Album: Navigations for Strings; Small Waves

Album: Wind Shadows

Album: Alvin Lucier

Album: Ever Present

Album: Sferics / Music for Solo Performer

2010s

Album: Still And Moving Lines Of Silence In Families Of Hyperbolas

Album: Alvin Lucier

Album: Orchestra Works

Album: Alvin Lucier: Two Circles

Album: Illuminated by the Moon

Album: Criss Cross / Hanover

Album: So You … (Hermes, Orpheus, Eurydice)

Album: Ricochet Lady

2020s

Album: String Noise

Album: Vespers

Album: Works for the Ever Present Orchestra

Died 2021

Album: Swing Bridge; Sizzles

Album: One Arm Bandits

Album: Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II

Album: In Memoriam Alvin Lucier

Biography

Biography

Early life

Personal life

I Am Sitting in a Room

Other works

Films

Listening

Movies

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Discography (36 release groups · 35 studio albums)

Albums · 35

Album · 1

Stats & PK

Awards & honours

Line-up

Where this record comes from

Why this artist is in the database

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