Thursday 13 March 2008

Alvien Lucier "I am sitting in a Room"

One of the most elegant pieces of conceptual sound art you can find. All self contained, all self-explanatory, all sound. Feedback: Somehow everything relates to this concept, from being trapped in it to the liberation from it. Get out of the room Alvin!

I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. 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. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have.

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