Alvin Lucier
Checking the Web sites of some of our local presenters to get the latest scoop, I see that New Music Circle has locked down dates and venues for a couple of shows that were announced last fall without that information.
Composer, performer and installation artist Michael Schumacher will come to St. Louis on Sunday, March 26 for a concert beginning at 4 p.m. at Tietjens Hall on the Washington University campus. I haven't heard Schumacher's music, but NMC's blurbage says he "works predominantly with electronic and digital media, specializing in computer-generated sound environments which evolve continuously. In addition to avant-garde compositions, Schumacher has also composed for traditional instrumentation, including piano, chamber ensembles, song cycles and orchestral symphonies."
Also getting a date and venue is Alvin Lucier, famed as a composer and performer who, among many other things, makes frequent use of applied theories of acoustics and perception in his music. Lucier's performance will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 16 at the Steinberg Auditorium, located in the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum (formerly the Washington University Gallery of Art) at the corner of Forsyth and Skinker on the Wash U. campus.
"Lucier has long been a pioneer in the field of music composition and performance, ranging from documenting physical gestures and brain waves in live performance to the generation of visual imagery by sound in vibrating media. Most recently, he has caused sound waves to spin through space in both sound installations and works for solo instruments, chamber ensembles and orchestras," says the promo copy. For a bit more on Lucier, see this interview, this discography, and this directory entry.
In addition to these two concerts, NMC's site lists two other 2006 events still without dates or venues: "Guitar Circus," a sort of all-star show featuring a half-dozen electric guitarists in ensemble; and a spring installment of the ongoing film-with-improv-music series "Circle/Cinema." Watch this space for further details.
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