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In a performance of Music for Solo Performer, composed by Alvin Lucier in 1965, Lucier attaches electrodes to his head to detect his alpha brain waves. His alpha brain waves are then transmitted by amplifiers to loudspeakers that are used to resonate percussion instruments placed around a concert hall.
Lucier wrote: "I realized the value of the EEG situation as a theater element ... I was also touched by the image of the immobile if not paralyzed human being who, by merely changing states of visual attention, can activate ... a large battery of percussion instruments including cymbals, gongs, bass drums, timpani, and other ..."
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The photo at the left shows Alvin Lucier seated, wearing an electrode headband, performing Solo. Photo by Phil Makanna. Courtesy Alvin Lucier.
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