American avant-garde composer Alvin Lucier died in 2021 – but scientists have developed a "mini-brain," using a selection of the late musician's cells, to make new music.

The groundbreaking results are being showcased in an exhibition entitled Revivification, at the Art Gallery of Western Australia in the city of Perth. Admission is free for visitors, and the exhibit will run until August.

It seems that Lucier would be proud of this posthumous career, given that the composer spent his life creating such pieces as 1965's "Music for Solo Performer," which involved making music from brain waves.

Before his death in 2021 at the age of 90, Lucier had been working with the team behind Revivification for three years. Harvard scientists took Lucier's donated blood cells and reprogrammed them into stem cells; subsequently, these cells were transformed into organoids, which mirrored elements of the human brain.

Lucier's "mini-brain" is being housed within a structure composed of 20 brass plates. The "brain" produces signals, which send out pulses that strike the plates. You can read more about the exhibition here.