Music On A Long Thin Wire

″Music on a Long Thin Wire" is a musical piece by Alvin Lucier conceived in 1977.

The ends of the wire are connected to the loudspeaker terminals of a power amplifier placed under one of the tables.

Wooden bridges are inserted under the wire at both ends to which contact microphones are embedded, routed to a stereo sound system.

The microphones pick up the vibrations that the wire imparts to the bridges and are sent through the playback system.

[2] He discovered that the best way to produce variation in the sonic phenomena was to pick a setting and leave the setup alone.

Alvin Lucier behind the horseshoe magnet used to induce vibrations to the wire (Cover detail from the LP , Lovely Music 1980)