I Am Sitting In A Room Rym

Music profile for alvin lucier born 14 may 1931.

I am sitting in a room rym.

I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. 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. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies e g. The new recording is then played back and re recorded and.

I am sitting in a room lyrics. I am sitting in a room is alvin lucier s idea of pure sound experiments. The new recording is then played back and re recorded and this process is repeated. 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. Spoken word electroacoustic sound art. 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.

Albums include i am sitting in a room ohm. What you will hear. 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. The early gurus of electronic music.

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. Indeed the conceptual crux of the work is a radical reversal of the logic of musical composition. Through playback and recording of successive generations of his own voice the sound is washed until his talking is a pure harmonic.

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

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. 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 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.