I Am Sitting In A Room Rym

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.

I am sitting in a room rym.

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 is a piece of experimental music composed by alvin lucier in 1969. Different between a large hall. The early gurus of electronic music.

Alvin lucier discography and songs. 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. The others are gradually eliminated. 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.

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. Music profile for alvin lucier born 14 may 1931. I am sitting in a room is alvin lucier s idea of pure sound experiments. I am sitting in a room lyrics.

The new recording is then played back and re recorded and this process is repeated. Albums include i am sitting in a room ohm. 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. Indeed the conceptual crux of the work is a radical reversal of the logic of musical composition.

What you will hear. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies e g. 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. Spoken word electroacoustic sound art.

I am sitting in a room this song is by alvin lucier. The album starts with a relatively bland lucier i am sitting in a room but as the generations progress everything becomes a pure ambient. On i am sitting in a room alvin lucier records himself speaking four sentences in which he explains the method and aim of the piece in a nutshell he is sitting in a room and recording the sound of his speaking voice. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and i am going to play it back into the room again and.

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. 1948 1980 and music on a long thin wire. 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 different from the one you are in now.