Mr. Lucier performs, lectures and exhibits his sound installations extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia. He has visited Japan twice: in 1988 he performed at the Abiko Festival, Tokyo, and installed Music on a Long Thin Wire in Kyoto; in 1992 he toured with pianist Aki Takahashi, performing in Kawasaki, Yamaguchi and Yokohama. In 1990-91 he was a guest of the DAAD Kunstler Program in Berlin. In January 1992, he performed in Delhi, Madras, and Bombay, and during the summer of that year was guest composer at the Time of Music Festival in Vitaasari, Finland. He regularly contributes articles to books and periodicals. His own book, Chambers, written in collaboration with Douglas Simon, was published by the Wesleyan University Press. In addition, several of his works are available on Cramps (Italy), Disques Montaigne, Source, Mainstream, CBS Odyssey, Nonesuch, and Lovely Music Records.

In October, 1994, Wesleyan University honored Alvin Lucier with a five-day festival — Alvin Lucier: Collaborations — for which he composed twelve new works, including Theme, based on a poem by John Ashbery and Skin, Meat, Bone, a collaborative theater work with Robert Wilson. In April, 1997, Lucier presented a concert of his works on the Making Music series at Carnegie Hall and in October of the same year his most recent sound installation, Empty Vessels, was exhibited at the Donaueschingen Music Festival in Germany. Recently, Diamonds for three orchestras was performed under the direction of Petr Kotik at the Prague Spring Festival, 1999. In March 1995, Reflections/Reflexionen, a bilingual edition of Lucier’s scores, interviews and writings was published by MusikTexte, Köln.