AdvertisementCultureMusicArts This festival’s headline act died in 2021 – but he’ll still be performing Michael Dwyer August 6, 2026 — 4:00pm Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Influential experimental composer Alvin Lucier, who died in 2021. NYT This is Revivification, a sound art installation at this year’s Now or Never “festival of new dimensions” in art, ideas and technology. “You can think about it as a living neural network: living tissue that originated from the legendary composer Alvin Lucier.” Lucier died in 2021, but “we formulated the project with Alvin, with his full knowledge and his consent,” Ben-Ary stresses.