Different between a large hall.
I am sitting in a room rym.
Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies e g.
The early gurus of electronic music.
The others are gradually eliminated.
I am sitting in a room is alvin lucier s idea of pure sound experiments.
I am sitting in a room lyrics.
I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and i am going to play it back into the room again and.
What you will hear.
The audio section of the piece features alvin lucier recording himself narrating a text and then playing the tape recording back into the room re recording it.
A close friend and colleague of john cage pauline oliveros and david tudor among others lucier occupies a formative place in the history of experimental music within this lineage i am sitting in a room is influential for its treatment of space as a component of sonic production.
I am sitting in a room 1969 is one of composer alvin lucier s best known works featuring lucier recording himself narrating a text and then playing the recording back into the room re recording it.
I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and i am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech with perhaps the exception of rhythm is destroyed.
I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now.
Alvin lucier discography and songs.
Through playback and recording of successive generations of his own voice the sound is washed until his talking is a pure harmonic.
I am sitting in a room this song is by alvin lucier.
The new recording is then played back and re recorded and.
He will play this recording back into the room again and again taping each iteration until all semblance of his speech is destroyed.
1948 1980 and music on a long thin wire.
I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now.
Spoken word electroacoustic sound art.
In i am sitting in a room several sentences of recorded speech are simultaneously played back into a room and re recorded there many times.
I am sitting in a room is a piece of experimental music composed by alvin lucier in 1969.
The work is fascinating to me because the acoustic of the room is at the heart of how the music evolves during the work.
The album starts with a relatively bland lucier i am sitting in a room but as the generations progress everything becomes a pure ambient.
Albums include i am sitting in a room ohm.
Music profile for alvin lucier born 14 may 1931.
As the repetitive process continues those sounds common to the original spoken statement and those implied by the structural dimensions of the room are reinforced.
Indeed the conceptual crux of the work is a radical reversal of the logic of musical composition.
