From music made from brain waves to gamelan instruments reworked for amplifiers and loudspeakers, Alvin Lucier rewired how we heard sound. Kris Serafin/Courtesy of Black Truffle hide caption toggle caption Kris Serafin/Courtesy of Black Truffle Obituaries Alvin Lucier, inquisitive and innovative composer, has died at 90 December 1, 2021 • Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire.
iStockphoto Opinion 13.7: Cosmos And Culture What Art, And The Game Telephone, Teach Us About Copying October 17, 2014 • The basic phenomenon of speaking, expressing meaning in words — and also that of copying or recording what we hear — is laid bare before our eyes by artist Alvin Lucier, says commentator Alva Noë.
