Music for Solo Performer: Alvin Lucier Hommage at Saint-Merry

Music for Solo Performer (composed in 1965) is a performance for enormously amplified brain waves.

This performance features Dominique Peysson.

A collection of percussion instruments are triggered by EEG electrodes attached to an artist's scalp. The EEG machine (lent to the performers for the evening by a local hospital) detects bursts of alpha waves generated when the wired artist achieves a meditative, non-visual brain state. These alpha waves are then amplified and the resulting electrical signal is used to vibrate the various percussion instruments distributed around the performance space.

The performance was held at Saint-Merry in Beauborg, Paris on the evening of May 2nd, 2009.

This video is only a brief excerpt of the performance.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Alvin Lucier
• Music for Solo Performer
• Saint-Merry

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