Alvin Lucifer (Two Excerpts) Track

Alvin Lucifer (Two Excerpts)Performed by Steven Kado and Brian Joseph DavisRecorded live at Mercer Union Contemporary Art CentreA metal cover of Alvin Lucier’s 1977 work, Music On a Long Thin Wire, which was a wire stretched the length of a room with bridges and contact mics at either end. The wire ends themselves were inserted into the speaker outs on a receiver. The sound sent through the wire was a sine wave. In this version, developed along with Steven Kado, we used the track “Untitled” from the Neurosis CD, Word As Law, two matched Ampeg SVTs and rat pedals.  You can hear fragments of the sound source but mostly it’s the amazingly layered sound of the wire pulsing and feedbacking on itself. This recording is drawn from our six hour, six minute and six second performance.