Alvin Lucier: 'I am sitting in a room' (1969)
Steve Reich: 'Pendulum Music' (1968, rev. 1973)
Ambrose Seddon: 'Secure' (2013) (world premiere)
Aisha Orazbayeva: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (2013) (world premiere)
Performers
Lucy Railton, cello (Lucier)
(The loudspeaker: an icon of modernity, the ultimate harbinger of the dislocation and re-embodiment of sound that swept through 20th century music. But with Alvin Lucier and Steve Reich’s experiments in the 1960s, the speaker also became a rich source of creativity for composers and artists.)