Tag Archives: Alvin Lucier

In the Cave of Sound

Posted on August 5, 2021 by davidtoop

“To him who is a cave in which my shout echoes.” Victor Segalen, from Stèles (1912). How was it, and when was it, that I encountered Victor Segalen’s peculiar little novel, Dans Un Monde Sonore, published in 1907? Probably when … Continue reading →

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Sound Thinking: Stuart Marshall’s Idiophonics

Posted on July 10, 2013 by davidtoop

Wood striking wood, quick, hard, BOK! Impact sound sprays out, an omni-directional striking of all reflective surfaces and returning through time to the distributed centres of listening, the BOK-space of audition. This is the basis of Stuart Marshall’s composition known … Continue reading →

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