I Am Sitting In A Room Rym

I am sitting in a room is alvin lucier s idea of pure sound experiments.

I am sitting in a room rym.

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. 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.

I am sitting in a room this song is by alvin lucier. 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. Indeed the conceptual crux of the work is a radical reversal of the logic of musical composition. 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 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. 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 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 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.

Music profile for alvin lucier born 14 may 1931. The others are gradually eliminated. The early gurus of electronic music. 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.

The new recording is then played back and re recorded and this process is repeated. The new recording is then played back and re recorded and. 1948 1980 and music on a long thin wire. Alvin lucier discography and songs.

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. Spoken word electroacoustic sound art. 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.

Different between a large hall. Albums include i am sitting in a room ohm. I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies e g.