I Am Sitting in a Room
Sound art piece by Alvin Lucier / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I am sitting in a room is a sound art piece composed in 1969 and one of composer Alvin Lucier's best known works.
I am sitting in a room | |
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by Alvin Lucier | |
Genre | Process |
Language | English |
Composed | 1969 (1969): Brandeis University |
Performed | 1970 (1970): Guggenheim Museum |
Recorded | 1969 (1969): Electronic Music Studio at Brandeis |
The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Due to the room's particular size and geometry, certain frequencies of the recording are emphasized while others are attenuated. Eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the characteristic resonant frequencies of the room itself.[1]
In his book on the origins of minimalism, Edward Strickland wrote that "In its repetition and limited means, I am sitting in a room ranks with the finest achievements of Minimal tape music. Furthermore, in its ambient conversion of speech modules into drone frequencies, it unites the two principal structural components of Minimal music in general."[1]