{"id":4964,"date":"2011-05-18T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2011-05-18T21:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T20:26:00","slug":"isnt-that-terrific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2011\/05\/isnt-that-terrific.html","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t that terrific?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin Lucier, who I had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/06\/bird-and-person-dyning.html\">the privilege of seeing<\/a> a couple of years ago, just turned 80. Daniel Wolf at <a href=\"http:\/\/renewablemusic.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/alvin-lucier-is-80.html\">Renewable Music<\/a> gives a summary of <a href=\"http:\/\/renewablemusic.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/alvin-lucier-is-80.html\">the many reasons why<\/a> the world would be a lot worse without him.  Lucier&#8217;s way of thinking will become even more important as we struggle to understand what music may be, in a world of ever-increasing technological mediation of experience, and of convergence between media.<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Collins, author of the essential <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdemusic.org\/Nic-Collinsbr-iHandmade-Electronic-Music-i-p218.html\">Handmade Electronic Music &#8211; The Art of Hardware Hacking<\/a><\/em>, has generously uploaded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolascollins.com\/notebooks.htm\">scans of his notes from taking Lucier&#8217;s class<\/a>, &#8220;Introduction to Electronic Music&#8221;, along with his reflections on Lucier&#8217;s teaching and the musical culture of the early 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alvin Lucier, who I had the privilege of seeing a couple of years ago, just turned 80. Daniel Wolf at Renewable Music gives a summary of the many reasons why the world would be a lot worse without him. Lucier&#8217;s way of thinking will become even more important as we struggle to understand what music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4965,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}