Alvin Lucier: Slices (2007/19)

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Best song from a very chilly random iTunes run. Charles Curtis’ “Unfinished Song,” which wrapped me up in warmth and beauty. https://charlescurtis.bandcamp.com/album/performances-recordings-1998-2018?t=10 #CharlesCurtis #cello #contemporaryclassical #music
Performances & Recordings 1998-2018, by Charles Curtis

20 track album

Charles Curtis

https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/one-arm-bandits

Alvin Lucier - One Arm Bandits

"One Arm Bandits is an hour-long piece in four parts, scored for four cellists. The cellists play only open strings, thus using only their right arms, never fingering the strings with the left hand. Recorded in Alvin Lucier's dining room, this work features cellists Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann. Lucier oversaw and produced the recording, and approved the final takes."

#AlvinLucier #CharlesCurtis

One Arm Bandits, by Alvin Lucier

4 track album

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#NowPlaying #CharlesCurtis #AlanLicht #DeanRoberts for @AqiDraco’s #SundayStarter. Recorded during an 11-stop tour of Europe in Spring of 1999, this LP represents an early high watermark in the collision of minimal and rock sensibilities that started to become prevalent in the late 90s and is an ear-opening listen even for those familiar with the musicians’ other projects. https://alanlicht.bandcamp.com/album/may-99
May 99, by Charles Curtis, Alan Licht, and Dean Roberts

2 track album

Alan Licht
Naldjorlak, by Éliane Radigue

3 track album

Saltern
#Upcoming #Saltern announce a double album of composer #ÉlianeRadigue’s Naldjorlak performed by cellist #CharlesCurtis. Two complete performances recorded nearly 15 years apart. Out May 5 on double-CD and digitally. https://saltern.bandcamp.com/album/naldjorlak
Naldjorlak, by Éliane Radigue

3 track album

Saltern
Naldjorlak, by Éliane Radigue

3 track album

Saltern
Alvin Lucier (1931–2021)

ALVIN LUCIER DID THINGS QUIETLY, without fanfare. He made a piece for cello and wind, which I played outdoors at the Mimm’s Ranch amphitheater in Marfa in 2016. I sat maybe a hundred yards off from the listeners, almost out of sight, and the soft sweeping tones of the cello were to be borne back to the listeners by the soft west Texas wind. In place of any explanation or score, Alvin sent me in advance a photocopy, by mail, of the first page of Hermann Broch’s The Death of Virgil. Sounds from the shore of Brundisium, “a sound of life, a hammering or a summons,” are blown by a “soft, scarcely

Am 29. Januar 1907, heute vor 116 Jahren, wurde Charles Curtis der erste indianischstämmige US-Senator.

Curtis, dessen Mutter dem Volk der Kansa angehörte, gewann im Januar 1907 die Wahl zum US-Senat, dem er mit zwei Jahren Unterbrechung bis 1929 angehörte.

Danach war der Republikaner unter Präsident Herbert Hoover Vizepräsident, auch dieses Amt hatte er als erster Indigener inne.

#geschichte #historisch #heutevor #geschichtetoday #charlescurtis #curtis #indianer #indigene #kansa #kansas #usa

The Transcendence of #TerryJennings

Vanessa Ague on Terry Jennings and Charles Curtis

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/terry-jennings-charles-curtis-interview

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The Transcendence of Terry Jennings

“This piece isn't a ghost, it isn't a corpse, it's a living composition that's moving along, in the present and into the future.”

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