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    Alvin Lucier, inquisitive and innovative composer, has died at 90

    by Lars Gotrich Dec 01, 2021 3 minutes
    From music made from brain waves to gamelan instruments reworked for amplifiers and loudspeakers, Alvin Lucier rewired how we heard sound.

    Alvin Lucier, the groundbreaking American composer and educator, died Wednesday at his home in Middletown, Conn. after a long illness. He was 90. Lucier changed the way we think about sound through monumental works like I Am Sitting in a Room and Music on a Long Thin Wire. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a little over a decade ago; NPR confirmed the news of his death with Amanda Lucier, his daughter.

    Lucier was born May 14, 1931 in Nashua, N.H., to a musical family, an environment that, in time, led to his studies

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