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ARTIST
TITLE
Music On A Long Thin Wire
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
LCD 1011CD LCD 1011CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
3/10/2017

2022 restock; 1992 release. First released on Lovely Music in 1980. A 50-foot length of taut wire passes through the poles of a large magnet and is driven by an oscillator; the vibrations of the wire are miked at either end, amplified, and broadcast in stereo. The thin wire is set vibrating four times at four different frequencies; what results is not the low drone one might expect from a long, vibrating wire, but a complexity of evocative, ethereal chords. Music On A Long Thin Wire is a classic example of Alvin Lucier's investigations into the physics of sound and the sonic properties of natural processes.