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Amanda Lucier is a photojournalist whose work focuses on the American West and women in

ranching, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times. She is the founder of Odeline, a

fund which brings access to land for regenerative land managers and is a partner in Square Mile

Ranch in Wallowa, Oregon.

Abigail Levine is an artist working between New York and Los Angeles. Rooted in dance but

moving across media—performance, text, drawing, sound—Levine focuses on the poetics of

our body’s work, how we record and value it. Levine has performed with both Marina Abramovic

and Yvonne Rainer in their retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and recently

collaborated with composer Alvin Lucier on a staging of his Orpheus Variations at ISSUE

Project Room. Her next work, Redactions, will premier at The Chocolate Factory Theater in

2022.

Born in Kamakura, Japan, Aki Takahashi began studying piano at the age of five with her

mother. Her landmark recording, Aki Takahashi Piano Space, with 20 contemporary piano works

including those by Berio, Boulez, Cage, Xenakis, Stockhausen received her the Merit Prize at

the Japan Art Festival in 1973. Her series of Erik Satie concerts (1975-77) triggered a Satie

boom throughout Japan. Her collaboration with Feldman from 1980 to his death has resulted not

only in performing his music around the world but also in many recordings. Her project “Hyper

Beatles” invited 47 composers to create works inspired by various Beatles tunes. Among the

composers were Cage, Takemitsu, Riley, Norgaard,Rzewski, Curran, Lucier, Saariaho, Oliveros,

Wolff and Sakamoto. Takahashi continues the Schubert recordings and the seventh CD has

been released in 2020.

Akiko Hatakeyama is a composer/performer of electroacoustic music and intermedia. Her

music focuses on realizing relationships between the body and mind into intermedia

composition, often in conjunction with building customized instruments and interfaces. In her

compositions and performances, she interacts with sound, light, and haptic objects, making the

dialogue between her inner self and environment perceivable. Akiko’s experience of embodied

time, including memories, emotions, and personal experiences, is communicated nonverbally to

the audience. Akiko obtained her B.A. in music from Mills College, M.A. in Experimental

Music/Composition at Wesleyan University, where she studied with Alvin, and Ph.D. at Brown

University. She is currently an assistant professor at the University of Oregon.

Thank you for having me in the project. I look forward to seeing the information about the

exhibition.

Alec McLane retired in 2019 after 21 years as Music Librarian and Director of the World Music

Archives at Wesleyan University. He was educated at the Berklee College of Music and the

University of Illinois, where he received graduate degrees in music composition and library

science. He continues to pursue an active interest in the world music ensembles and

experimental music at Wesleyan. In the fall of 2012, following the retirement of Alvin Lucier from

Wesleyan, he helped to curate an exhibit of the composer’s works during a week-long

celebration of his career.

Andrea Miller-Keller was Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth

Atheneum from 1986 to 1998. With Jim Elliott, director of the WA at the time, she started the

MATRIX Gallery, a changing exhibition of contemporary art, at the oldest public museum in the

US. Among the artists who had their first one person museum shows in that gallery including

Richard Tuttle, Neil Jenney, Jon Borofsky, Daniel Buren, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Nancy Spero,

Louise Lawler, Barbara Kruger, Gerhard Richter, Lorna Simpson, Carrie Mae Weems, and

Glenn Ligon. In 2011 Miller-Keller curated Alvin Lucier (An Artists and His Friends), a

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retrospective show at the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University, where Alvin is

the John Spencer Camp Professor of Music, Emeritus.

Anna Pangalou is a voice soloist who explores the boundaries of classical vocal practices and

the new forms created by experimental sound practices with dark dramatic color. She has

studied classical singing in Cannes, Vienna, Rome, and Athens. Prizes and scholarships include

Alexandros Onassis Foundation, Fulbright Foundation, and International ‘Dimitri Mitropoulos’

Singing competition.

She has appeared as a soloist in Greece, Austria, Germany, Italy, France, Egypt, Turkey and

the United States, performing Opera, Lied, Oratorio, New Musical Theatre, and Contemporary

Music. She specializes in avant-garde contemporary music. Contemporary composers have

written works for her voice. She enjoys co-creating with people from different trajectories,

exploring new paths of perception as an art form.

Anthony Burr has worked with Alvin Lucier on realizations of his music for close to 20 years

now. He is Professor of Contemporary Music Performance at the University of California, San

Diego.

Barbara Bloom is a visual artist living in New York City. Her conceptual practice uses

photography, objects, and installation. Though enthusiastically visual, the work stems more from

the traditions of literature than from the fields of painting or sculpture. She has said: “I am

probably a novelist, but somehow ended up standing in the wrong line, and inadvertently signed

up to be a visual artist.” Her work has been shown internationally including exhibitions at MoMA,

New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; The Metropolitan Museum, New York; Gropius-Bau,

Berlin; ICP, New York; Wexner Center, Columbus; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; The

Serpentine Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

Bernhard Rietbrock is a musician and a research associate at the Institute for Music Research

at the Zurich University of the Arts. He is the founder and artistic director of the Ever Present

Orchestra, the head of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) research project “Hearing

the Other - an Aesthetic of the Real in Experimental Music and Sound Art”, editor of the Alvin

Lucier Illuminated by the Moon box set, and co-editor of the Alvin Lucier I am sitting in a room

box set.

Bob Bielecki has worked in electronic arts for over fifty years, creating unique instruments and

sound designs for installation and performance. He is known for his contributions to the work of

a long list of innovative artists. He’s currently involved researching sound localization,

psychoacoustics, and 3-D audio. Bob is a recipient of grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation

and the New York State Council on the Arts and serves on the faculty of the Bard College MFA

Program (1997-). He began working with Alvin Lucier in the mid 1970’s and is credited as “tape

editor” for the original version of “I Am Sitting in a Room.”

Cellist Charles Curtis has woven a unique career through the worlds of classical performance

and musical experimentation. Through regular performances and recordings Curtis has worked

closely with legendary avant-gardists La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, French composer

Éliane Radigue who created her very first work for a purely acoustic instrument for Curtis, artist

and performer Alison Knowles, composer Tashi Wada, and Alvin Lucier, who has composed

numerous works for Curtis, including pieces for cello and sine waves, cello and piano, cello with

large orchestra, and cello and wind. In February 2020, over multiple evenings at ISSUE, Curtis

collaborated with choreographer Abigail Levine and an intergenerational group of dancers, to

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present Lucier’s ‘Orpheus Variations’ with a wind ensemble featuring students from the

University of California San Diego, where Curtis is Distinguished Professor.

Christian Wolff is a composer. He has known Alvin Lucier and admired his work for about 55

years now.

Christina Kubisch, born 1948 in Bremen, belongs to the first generation of sound artists. She

has artistically developed multiple techniques based on electromagnetic induction, solar energy

and special light systems. Since 2003 she has started the series “Electrical Walks”, where the

public can listen by special custom made headphones to the hidden electromagnetic waves

around us. She has been a professor for audiovisual arts in Berlin, Paris, Saarbrücken and

Oxford. She is a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. Her installations, compositions

and audio-visual works have been presented worldwide. Christina Kubisch lives and works in

Berlin.

Claire Chase, described by The New York Times as “the most important flutist of our time,” is a

soloist, collaborative artist, curator and advocate for new music. She has given the world

premieres of hundreds of new works by a new generation of composers, and in 2013 began a

24-year commissioning project called Density 2036. Chase founded the International

Contemporary Ensemble in 2001, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and in 2017 was

awarded the Avery Fisher Prize from Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is Professor of

the Practice of Music at Harvard University's Department of Music.

Cleek Schrey is a fiddler, composer, and filmmaker from Virginia, now based in NYC. He plays

folk and experimental music on a range of instruments including the hardanger d’amore, a violin

with sympathetic strings, and the daxophone, a wooden idiophone designed by Hans Reichel.

Frequent collaborators include electronic music pioneer David Behrman, the viol da gamba

player Liam Byrne, traditional fiddle icon Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, and composer Alvin Lucier.

He is currently Pioneer Works Sound Artist-in-Residence on Governors Island.

Violinist Conrad Harris has performed new works for violin at Ostrava Days, Darmstadt

Ferrienkürse für Neue Musik, Gulbenkian Encounters of New Music, Radio France, Warsaw

Autumn, and New York's Sonic Boom Festival. In addition to being a member of the FLUX

Quartet and violin duo String Noise, he is concertmaster/soloist with the S.E.M. Orchestra,

Ostravská Banda, STX Ensemble, Wordless Music Orchestra and Ensemble LPR. He has

performed and recorded with such artists as Elliott Sharp, Robert Ashley, Alvin Lucier, David

Behrman "Blue" Gene Tyranny, Jean-Claude Risset, Rohan de Saram and Tiny Tim. His

recordings of the Lejaren Hiller Violin Sonatas with pianist, Joseph Kubera was released in 2018

on New World Records. He has also recorded for Asphodel, Vandenburg, CRI, and Vinyl

Retentive Records.

Daniel Fishkin, the composer and instrument builder, lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Dave Scanlon is a composer, guitarist, vocalist, and electronic musician. Scanlon is an active

member of the experimental rock band JOBS, pursues a practice of writing austere songs, and

continues a series of "counting" compositions focusing on intonation, numerology, and

measurement. Scanlon has released music on Ramp Local, New Amsterdam Records, Tzadik

Records, Hometapes, Clean Feed Records, and Whatever’s Clever Records. Scanlon has

performed with David Behrman, Chuck Bettis, Leverage Models, Alvin Lucier, Yamamoto Seiichi

(of The Boredoms), Otomo Yoshihide, and numerous others.