1948 1980 and music on a long thin wire.
I am sitting in a room rym.
Albums include i am sitting in a room ohm.
The early gurus of electronic music.
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.
Music profile for alvin lucier born 14 may 1931.
The new recording is then played back and re recorded and this process is repeated.
I am sitting in a room this song is by alvin lucier.
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.
I am sitting in a room is a piece of experimental music composed by alvin lucier in 1969.
What you will hear.
I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now.
The others are gradually eliminated.
I am sitting in a room is alvin lucier s idea of pure sound experiments.
I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and i am going to play it back into the room again and.
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.
Spoken word electroacoustic sound art.
I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now.
The new recording is then played back and re recorded and.
The work is fascinating to me because the acoustic of the room is at the heart of how the music evolves during the work.
Alvin lucier discography and songs.
Indeed the conceptual crux of the work is a radical reversal of the logic of musical composition.
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.
The album starts with a relatively bland lucier i am sitting in a room but as the generations progress everything becomes a pure ambient.
He will play this recording back into the room again and again taping each iteration until all semblance of his speech is destroyed.
I am sitting in a room lyrics.
Different between a large hall.
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.
Through playback and recording of successive generations of his own voice the sound is washed until his talking is a pure harmonic.
Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies e g.
