Sleeping pill

Sleeping Pill
Rosemarie Trockel – Biennale of Venice
German Pavilion
1999

Rupture

Sundry resources from rupture research:
Haptic exhibition at the Lighthouse
Skin by Ellen Lupton
Photographs by Elinor Carucci
Naomi Klein – no logo
Dr Zane Berzina – research and projects using thermochromic inks

A potted history of wearables

largely based on images from associated press archives

Music for Solo Performer

 

Alvin Lucier had begun working with physicist Edmond Dewan in 1964, performing experiments that used brainwaves to create sound. The next year, he was inspired to compose a piece of music using brainwaves as the sole generative source.
Music for Solo Performer was presented, with encouragement from John Cage, at the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in 1965.

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 …”