A composer died in 2021, but a lab-grown version of his brain is still making new 'music'

A composer died in 2021, but a lab-grown version of his brain is still making new 'music'

I love the gag from Futurama where, when people die, their heads and brains are kept alive in a jar, allowed to carry on forever. Their body may have failed, but in a sense they can live on and on and on (as long as someone's there to lug them around). It's a fascinating idea, and one that's definitely being explored in various ways here in the real world. For example, did you know that you can upload photos, videos, and audio clips of a decease…

In 1965, Alvin Lucier made history using his brain waves to make music. Today, decades after his death, his own neurons, cultivated in the laboratory, are generating real-time music within an artistic installation, keeping his avant-garde sonorous legacy literally alive.

An artificial ‘brain’ grown from an avant-garde composer’s blood is making posthumous music

Alvin Lucier died in 2021. Now his brain has been "resurrected" and is making music at an art exhibition in AustraliaContinue reading...

A Musician's Brain Matter Is Still Making Music Three Years After His Death

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: American composer Alvin Lucier was well-known for his experimental works that tested the boundaries of music and art. A longtime professor at Wesleyan University (before retiring in 2011), Alvin passed away in 2021 at the age of 90. However...