Alvin Lucier - "Music For Solo Performer" (1965)

Electronic music pioneer Alvin Lucier amplifies his own brain waves.
Nicolas Collins electronics. 1965.

[@mesmerising_official]

non ho parole...............

[@josephgetter]

Rest in peace, Alvin Lucier.
The piece is from 1965, video from 1976, filmed in the World Music Hall at Wesleyan University.

[@TheMusicHistorian]

This is of such amazing historical importance! I'm so glad the video exists, and grateful that it's available.

[@MoodOfMidas]

Its 5:56am and I am watching this. Pretty cool stuff, but i should go to bed now.

[@dag451]

Alvin Lucier, you are an inspiration!

[@AndrewLogie]

Totally awesome! Love this - taking music to the next dimension! Lightyears ahead of its time.

[@richardbrown9075]

Mr. Conceicao, I just want to thank you for putting this on TH-cam. I wanted to buy "Sferics; Music For Solo Performer" by Lucier on CD, but I hadn't been able to find this song on Spotify to hear it. But it was on here. I like it a whole lot, and just bought the CD from CD Universe because of this clip. THANK YOU!

[@VideoCrime]

My pleasure. I like it too and wish I could find more videos...

[@publicdoename5338]

I was scrolling down to do the same. Alvin is such a beautiful man. A very deep listener. Thank you, I had no idea this video existed. I've only read about this. Happy day, Carlos. Thank you. Peace be with you!

[@ScottCinsavich]

The CD is also available from Spotify for purchase

[@nancythetall]

Sorcery. My favorite piece of experimental music ever. Thank you.

[@Ellis307]

the birth of detroit techno right here

[@JeroenUyttendaele]

RIP Maestro!

[@stevebrown5597]

Remarkable!

[@boronoro]

Thank You very much for the post!!

[@LiteratureTodayUK]

amazing - that this video exists! Fascinating!!!

[@benjaminshinobi]

FUG YES! I remember searching for his stuff when I was in college a few years ago. Glad the real stuff is on here now. THANK YOU!

[@13soundembassy]

THANX for sharing!!!///GRACIAS por compartir!!!

[@emilianoturazzi]

one of the greatest musicians of the last 50 years

[@ericmsandoval]

LMAO his facial expression and zoom in at the beginning

[@7125Mhz]

Yes.

[@Bizarronumber4]

Really fascinating!

[@forocultural81]

Sweet!

[@cecilialorenzi9231]

Então, basicamente ele captou as ondas do próprio cérebro, as amplificou e as colocou para percutir os tímpanos, pratos e demais tambores?

[@oromosan2691]

woouw!!!

[@lkjlkjlkjlkjlkjlkj6]

this is so cool

[@StopFear]

Could it actually amplify anything meaningfully in 1965? Seems this would work better today when we have comparatively better wave detectors that people can put on. Like for example that toy that came out some years ago where you could put a thing on your head and then focus your thought for the toy to do something.

[@bradleyfletcher6525]

I know this is an old comment but Lucier's purpose was not to try and control the instruments. He designed it to read his brainwaves and translate this into percussive pulses. He was more interested in what would happen by chance than trying to control it.

[@rommix0]

@@bradleyfletcher6525 Indeed. Alvin had a more stochastic approach to his ideas than most of his contemporaries. Iannis Xenakis was the same way.

[@user-ob9zo9cr4c]

6:02 my hands after wake up

[@mikhailtolstikhin262]

Yeah BCI is our future

[@JontyMaster]

He's nearly 89 as of 2020.

[@juliusseizure591]

Hope COVID doesn't affect him like it did Lee Konitz...

[@cukorzebra3287]

Breeze House

[@bobthabuilda1525]

The first Brain-Machine Interface in history. Mankind went from this to Neuralink in just a few short decades. Wow!

[@sebdos]

Bass drop

[@malulaet4780]

fodaAaaaAasticow

[@desperatemohammedantheworl5833]

Even more pointless and boring conceptual music than Charles Dodge's "Magnetic Fields"

[@Unbuiltnut1257]

rad, man.

[@Videos5197]

Thanks Mohammed