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- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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1 Thomas Watson -
2 Microphonic Imagination -
3 The Aeolian and Henry David Thoreau’s Sphere Music -
4 The Aelectrosonic and Energetic Environments -
5 Inductive Radio and Whistling Currents -
6 Alvin Lucier -
7 Edmond Dewan and Cybernetic Hi-Fi -
8 Alvin Lucier -
9 From Brainwaves to Outer Space -
10 For More New Signals -
11 Sound of the Underground -
12 Long Sounds and Transperception -
13 Pauline Oliveros -
14 Thomas Ashcraft -
15 Black Sun, Black Rain -
16 Star-Studded Cinema -
17 Robert Barry -
18 Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments -
19 Joyce Hinterding -
20 Earth-in-Circuit - Index
Alvin Lucier
Alvin Lucier
Brainwaves
- Chapter:
- (p.83) 6 Alvin Lucier
- Source:
- Earth Sound Earth Signal
- Author(s):
Douglas Kahn
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
In the mid-1960s, Alvin Lucier composed two works utilizing what he called the natural electromagnetic sounds of brainwaves and natural radio, the former being Music for Solo Performer (1965). Background is given on Lucier’s transition to experimental music composition and to the development of Music for Solo Performer, including his relationship with the physicist Edmond Dewan (who first suggested he use brainwaves, supplied the equipment, and assisted with the process) and his relationship with John Cage. The premier of the work at “A Concert of New Music” at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University is discussed.
Keywords: Alvin Lucier, Edmond Dewan, brainwave music, Music for Solo Performer, experimental music, music and science, art and science, music and physics
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 Thomas Watson -
2 Microphonic Imagination -
3 The Aeolian and Henry David Thoreau’s Sphere Music -
4 The Aelectrosonic and Energetic Environments -
5 Inductive Radio and Whistling Currents -
6 Alvin Lucier -
7 Edmond Dewan and Cybernetic Hi-Fi -
8 Alvin Lucier -
9 From Brainwaves to Outer Space -
10 For More New Signals -
11 Sound of the Underground -
12 Long Sounds and Transperception -
13 Pauline Oliveros -
14 Thomas Ashcraft -
15 Black Sun, Black Rain -
16 Star-Studded Cinema -
17 Robert Barry -
18 Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments -
19 Joyce Hinterding -
20 Earth-in-Circuit - Index
