Alvin Lucier: I am sitting... (1969)
Steve Reich: Pendulum Music (1968, rev. 1973)
Ambrose Seddon: Secure (2013) (world premiere)
Aisha Orazbayeva: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (2013) (world premiere)
The loudspeaker: an icon of modernity, the ultimate harbinger of the dislocation and re-embodiment of sound that swept through 20th century music. But with Alvin Lucier and Steve Reich’s experiments in the 1960s, the speaker also became a rich source of creativity for composers and artists. Here we celebrate the musical results.