Landscape with Alvin Lucier “With and without purpose” : excerpts from the interview by Robert Ashley in his Music with Roots in the Aether (first text edition 2000 MusikTexte Cologne, but made for television 1975?)
I’ve selected these comments on the following topics from the interview:
- technology and feeling – emotions in music
- functionality and musical choice
- distilling ideas, like pure alcohol
- two-dimensional notation, three-dimensional sound in space
- technology as a landscape
- physicality of fly-fishing and sound
- in and out of balance, with and without purpose (more…)