Scientists use cells from brain of dead avant-garde composer to create new music

Did AI bring this famous musician back to life?

A team of researchers and artists in Australia has grown cells from a dead composer's brain to create new "music" which can be heard in a gallery — raising questions about the nature of creativity.

A group of scientists and artists in Australia has developed a sound installation that uses brain cells from the late composer Alvin Lucier to generate real-time music. The work, entitled Revivation, exhibited at the Western Australian Art Gallery in Perth, combines biotechnology and contemporary art to explore the limits of post-human creation and raises new questions about the authorship, consciousness and ethical use of emerging technologies.…

Scientists use cells from brain of dead avant-garde composer to create new music

Scientists have created a “mini-brain” using the cells of avant-garde composer Alvin Lucier and are using it to make new music.

Does death really mark the end of the journey of creative spirit? Four years after his disappearance, the composer Alvin Lucier seems to give a final demonstration of the persistence of the work. In the dull darkness of an art gallery in Perth, metallic tints with Morse code accents fill the space. No interpreter on the horizon: only twenty golden brass plates, a tangle of cables, and a small organic mass, pale and animated by electric pulses. F…

A group of scientists and artists came together in Australia to give new “life” to Alvin Lucier, American composer who died in 2021