INSTALLATIONS
by Alvin Curran

"Installation" the buzz-word of our art-beat, is a musical form I have been working in since the mid-60's. The entire theory practice and oeuvre of MEV could be said to be a sound installation. From the concert hall to the worldwideweb, with quarries, caves, fields, oceans, and rivers in between, everywhere is a music theater for me. If in Cagean we understand that any sound is potential music, is in fact music, then occupying the sites and sources of these sounds was a natural consequence of my wanting to embrace the whole sounding world. And this, in celebrations, commemorations, and pure conceptualizations I have been doing happily for some time.

The following is a list with links to descriptions of some of these works, created often in collaboration with likeminded visual artists. While many were typically site-specific, they could all be reproduced anywhere or suggest entirely new realizations or even better, new pieces. An extensive article on several of these pieces in the Leonardo Music Journal is Music From the Center of the Earth.

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