I Am Sitting In A Room

I am recording the sound of my speaking voice.

I am sitting in a room.

I am sitting in a room different from the one you. 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. Sitting in a room begins with lucier whose signature stutter is as pronounced now as it was on the original recording explaining the piece. I am sitting in a room 1969 for voice and electromagnetic tape.

I am sitting in a room lyrics. I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece composed in 1969 and one of composer alvin lucier s best known works. From i am sitting in a room lovely music ltd 1981. What you will hear then are the.

Lucier read a text into a microphone. Runs a process inspired by alvin lucier s i am sitting in a room for a sound in a room defined by its impulse response. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and i am going to play it back into the room again and. In 1969 american composer alvin lucier first performed his landmark work i am sitting in a room conceived for voice and electromagnetic tape.

1 microphone 2 tape recorders amplifier 1 loudspeaker choose a room the musical qualities of which you would like to evoke. Essentially it just applies a convolution reverb over and over again reinforcing the room s resonant frequencies and smoothing out irregularities present in the original sound. I am sitting in a room is alvin lucier s idea of pure sound experiments. Attempting to smooth out his stutter he began with the lines i am sitting in a room the same one you are in now.

The piece features lucier recording himself narrating a text and then playing the tape recording back into the room re recording it. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room until eventu. I am sitting in a room the same one you are in now. To the output of tape recorder 2 attach the amplifier and loudspeaker.

Attach the microphone to the input of tape recorder 1. 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 this process is repeated.