Alvin LUCIER
“Crossings”

1990 CD reissue of prime-era Lucier product, with works from 1982-85. Features ’In Memoriam Jon Higgins (for clarinet in A and slow-sweep pure wave oscillator)’, ’Septet for Three Winds, Four Strings and Pure Wave Oscillator’, and ’Crossings (for small orchestra with slow-sweep pure wave oscillator)’. Said slow-sweep pure wave oscillator produces slowly swept pure waves that oscillate (on separate occasions) a clarinet, three winds and four strings, and a small orchestra. Maximum beat frequency heterodyning, often at an audible pitch. Similar acoustic phenomena as Tony Conrad/Penderecki string work and just as aurally stimulating (for those with lazy ear-ciliae). Hrvatski.