Robert Ashley
She Was a Visitor in "Extended Voices"
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AMG Review of She Was a Visitor in "Extended Voices"
"Blue" Gene Tyranny
All Music GuideThe Brandeis University Chamber Chorus, conducted by Alvin Lucier. Describes musically how "rumor" is spread among people, with leaders of a group selecting phonemes of the chanted line "she was a visitor" and the group sustaining each individual sound. The amassed sound, a "surface" of normalized little disturbances, in which an audience could also participate, begins to resemble airplanes, cars, trains -- or perhaps the subatomic world.
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