Over the last four years, I’ve heard about half a dozen concerts of music by the composer Alvin Lucier in New York City. I have often begun listening to a piece with skepticism and left astonished. On March 25, Alvin Lucier will perform two of his works, “I Am Sitting in a Room” and “Vespers,” at the MaerzMusik Festival in Berlin. In a recent phone conversation, I started by asking him about those pieces.
I’m Not Hiding Anything
An interview with Alvin Lucier
