CHEN Chengwen

Alvin Lucier: Sound on Paper

for framed paper, loudspeakers and audio oscillator (1985)

Six pieces of white paper of different weights and densities are framed and mounted on easels, facing the audience, Behind each one is positioned a small loudspeaker. A pure wave oscillator, tuned to thirty-two cycles per second, is routed through a mixer to each loudspeaker. As the sound waves flow from the loudspeakers through the paper, the paper vibrates sympathetically, in ways determined by the pitch and loudness of the wave and the physical characteristics of the paper.
text score from: »Reflexionen«, Alvin Lucier, MusikTexte Verlag, s.474

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