Composer Alvin Lucier dies aged 90

Over the course of a career spanning six decades, Lucier has moved from a respected position as a traditional composer with impeccable training (he studied at Tanglewood with Lukas Foss and Aaron Copland) to a quasi embodiment of of musical empiricism. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he began writing works for brainwaves, birdsong, electronics, resonance bowls, and often standard classical instruments used primarily in different ways. unique.