SPECTRES Volume III: Ghosts in the Machine / Fantômes dans la machines Alvin Lucier these early works from 1973

these early works from 1973 capture a rare glimpse of one of the world's most important electronic music figures embarking on the early throes of a fruitful career as a film composer and sound designer with this rare and previously unheard documentary music illustrating the first-ever skiers' decent from the peak of the tallest mountain in Alaska

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The Spider Dance looks at local Pagans and at their ritual practice and interpretation of the traditional dance and music called pizzica

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SPECTRES Volume III: Ghosts in the Machine / Fantômes dans la machines Alvin Lucier these early works from 1973The expression ghost in the machine emerged within a particular context, namely as a critique of Cartesian dualisms separation of soul and body, and thus served to revive a certain mechanistic materialism Although this remains a fraught question, always accompanied by the risk of slipping into the register of belief, it is resurfacing today in relation to the emergence of artificial intelligences: Can there be such a thing as an artificial