{"id":243665,"date":"2026-09-04T21:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-composer-still-making-music-four-years-after-his-death-thanks-to-an-artificial-brain"},"modified":"2026-09-04T21:07:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T02:07:34","slug":"the-composer-still-making-music-four-years-after-his-death-thanks-to-an-artificial-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-composer-still-making-music-four-years-after-his-death-thanks-to-an-artificial-brain","title":{"rendered":"The composer still making music four years after his death \u2014 thanks to an artificial brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-composer-still-making-music-four-years-after-his-death-thanks-to-an-artificial-brain.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love this kind of synergy between art and technology \u2014 another demonstration of how these two concepts really aren\u2019t separate after all. People build up so many experiences over their lives, each moment layering on the previous one to create a uniquely complex tapestry. When we die, all of this is lost to thermal noise. While this particular artistic iteration may not exactly capture memory engrams, I hope that future posthumous neuro-arts find a way to transmit more of the original person\u2019s experiential tapestry. I think it is a lovely idea to try to keep at least part of a person\u2019s uniqueness growing, changing, and creating even after death.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In Australia, a team of artists and scientists have resurrected the US composer Alvin Lucier. It raises a storm of questions about AI and authorship \u2013 and it\u2019s also incredibly beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this kind of synergy between art and technology \u2014 another demonstration of how these two concepts really aren\u2019t separate after all. People build up so many experiences over their lives, each moment layering on the previous one to create a uniquely complex tapestry. When we die, all of this is lost to thermal [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}