Sonic Meditation for Solo Performer (for Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Lucier)
A constellation of salvaged marching band instruments that plays a musical composition made from the brainwaves of a single viewer.
The viewer wears an EEG brain monitor and reads a series of silent meditations. The viewer’s brain activity is then translated, via custom Max/MSP patch, into a 16 part musical composition that is played through the instruments hanging above.
This project was generously supported by the Music Academy of the West Alumni Enterprise Award, the Mid-America Arts Alliance, and the Art League Houston.