4 alvin lucier and douglas simon chambers wesleyan university press middletown ct 1980.
I am sitting in a room score.
I am sitting in a room the same one you are in now.
The new recording is then played back and re recorded and.
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.
At the same time the listener is asked to be an observer rather than participant in the.
The new recording is then played back and re recorded and this process is repeated.
The inaugural volume in cabinet s new 24 hour book series i am sitting in a room written and designed in one day explores the scenography and architecture of writing itself inspired in part by georges perec s short fragment in species of spaces on antonello da messina s painting of st.
Digital editing and mastering by allan tucker foothill productions nyc.
Jerome in his study dillon s text is both a personal reflection on the theatrics of the study.
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.
A contemporary score moma s recent acquisition of both i am sitting in a room and lucier s music for pure waves bass drums and acoustic pendulums 1980 continues the museum s dedication to representing the history of sound art within a broader context of 20th century artistic practice.
I am sitting in a room is a multi media piece created in 1969 1970 by mary and alvin lucier and in its solo sound version is one of composer alvin lucier s best known works.
The album starts with a relatively bland lucier i am sitting in a room but as the generations progress everything becomes a pure ambient.
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.
2 from the score of chambers 1968.
1 from the score of i am sitting in a room 1969.
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.
This original recording made by lucier in his own living room is but one realization of the instructions of the score.
The others are gradually eliminated.
The score specifies a process that is to be followed to make a sonic realization.
I am sitting in a room is alvin lucier s idea of pure sound experiments.
One of lucier s most important and best known works is i am sitting in a room 1969 in which lucier records himself narrating a text and then plays the recording back into the room re recording it.
Through playback and recording of successive generations of his own voice the sound is washed until his talking is a pure harmonic.
Building upon exhibitions such as soundings.
