21The human body as an audiovisual instrument
Context – brief overview
In the mid-1960s biofeedback methods were incorporated by composers in their performances in order to create what Rosenboom describes as “a self-organizing, dynamical system, rather than a fixed musical composition” (Rosenboom 1997: 74). This dynamic was attainable by measuring physiological parameters of subjects through diverse interfaces used in the aforementioned methods, which were developed by psychologists in order to help patients to reduce stress levels. The way in which composers such as Alvin Lucier, David Rosenboom and Richard Teitelbaum utilised these physiological values introduced a new form of modifying music in real-time through ...
