2014 Avant Music Festival: Alvin Lucier

Friday, February 21, 2014, at 8:00 pm

This is an archived event, not part of the current festival.

Wild Project, 195 East 3^rd Street, Manhattan

As part of the 2014 Avant Music Festival, Joan La Barbara premieres a new spoken word piece by Alvin Lucier, Palmpest (2014). In the mold of his landmark I Am Sitting In A Room, with Palmpest a speaker re-records the text of Lydia Davis' IF AT THE WEDDING (AT THE ZOO) over itself repeatedly creating layers of intelligibility.

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