No products in the cart.
Torn Light Records
356 Ludlow Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45220
513-873-6995
Monday - Saturday
11:00AM - 8:00PM
Sunday
11:00AM - 5:00PM
Out of stock
$13.00
1992 release. First released on Lovely Music in 1980. A 50-foot length of taut wire passes through the poles of a large magnet and is driven by an oscillator; the vibrations of the wire are miked at either end, amplified, and broadcast in stereo. The thin wire is set vibrating four times at four different frequencies; what results is not the low drone one might expect from a long, vibrating wire, but a complexity of evocative, ethereal chords. Music On A Long Thin Wire is a classic example of Alvin Lucier‘s investigations into the physics of sound and the sonic properties of natural processes.
| Genre | |
|---|---|
| Record Label |
| Categories | CD |
|---|---|
| Tags | cleo march 21 staff pick, Staff Pick |
| Stock Level | Out of stock |
‘Beyond crucial, minimalist micro-tape drip. The sounds behind the sounds.’ -BH Limited physical copy of the Street Calcium masterpiece by TVE. Hand assembled linen paper jackets, [...]
‘Gorgeous, deep electronics. Perfect pick for fans of Radigue, Oliveros, Alio Die, the drone side of Kevin Drumm etc.’ -BH Domestic release of this small run Japanese CD. Hand [...]
“A rust-colored soundscrape of heavy dirt and textured electronics, featuring three distinct tracks of tactile sonic destruction. Painted Rope is the first new full length in nearly 15 [...]
Artist / Label Description: ‘Portuguese witchcraft. Sonic sorcery. Joyful confusion and boundless nude motions through the celebration of dark arts.’ Hand assembled linen paper pocket [...]
CD – Reissue of Knurl’s debut 1994 tape “Initial Shock” with 3 bonus tracks, all mastered for CD in 2020. Approximately 1 hour of material. DVD – Footage from 9 [...]
“On “Deep In The Night, I’m Lost In Love” Jackson-Pratt swaggers through a skillful display of pummeling chaos across four tracks, each of which engage in an essentially different [...]
1990 release. Originally released in 1989 as Violin Solo. Sept. 3-4, ’89. Takehisa Kosugi‘s improvisations, both with violin and miscellaneous sounding objects, have a sense of [...]
Originally released on Lovely Music in 1987. Jetsun Mila is inspired by the life of Milarepa, a great yogi and poet of Tibet who lived in the 11th century. The story of his life as told to his [...]
1996 release. Originally released on Lovely Music as Pulsers / Untitled in 1984. This re-release includes an additional piece from David Tudor, Phonemes. Pulsers explores the world of rhythms [...]
Originally release on Lovely Music in 1987. A series of three pieces/suites; “Leapday Night”, “A Traveler’s Dream Journal”, and “Interspecies Smalltalk” [...]
2019 repress of the original CD version; recently awarded: 9.0 Best New Reissue on Pitchfork, Originally released on Lovely Music in 1978. David Behrman‘s On The Other Ocean is an [...]
Originally released by Lovely Music in 1981. In this fascinating exploration of acoustical phenomena, Alvin Lucier slips from the domain of language to that of music in the course of 40 minutes [...]
Josh Landes (Limbs Bin) first release under his own moniker, and not the latter. An unmasking of a somehow familiar character, Provincial Electronics is a soliloquy for the burnt but still sharp. [...]
It feels as though words like ‘fragile’, ‘musical’, and ‘contemplative’ are often not used to describe the found sounds in the realms of many recordings of experimental tape music. Yet, here we [...]
Label Description: Recorded using only voice, piano, and handmade cassette loops, Acknowledgment was conceived of and is presented as an intertextual document reflecting on 15 years of dialogue [...]
“A set of spry, pastoral Aecoustic Guitar and errant Electronic pieces that harken back to libraries by Teisco, Vittorio Marino, and the like, yet mapped in an alien manner unlike any known [...]
“Intimate Ghosting“, a compilation album featuring nine musicians from Japan and South Korea, is being newly introduced to the roster of the Netherlands/US-based record label Psychic [...]
‘Incredible Michigan tape music – The true sound of the basement crawling underbelly of Detroit – A beautiful ugliness. Beyond stellar tape – one of the best of 2020 [...]