Para?noid on 5/6/2006 at 22:27

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"I Am Sitting in a Room" by Alvin Lucier

"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 r-r-r-rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity nnnnnot so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to s-s-smooth out any irregularities my speech might have."

The room was designed in software, the performers are myself and the traffic outside (blissfully unaware they are contributing to a peice of music)!

Low Moral Fiber on 5/6/2006 at 22:47

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This is pretty damn rad and I wholeheartedly recommend listening to it.

APMeehan on 6/6/2006 at 00:26

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I recently finished reading Paul Morley's (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0747568642/qid=1149553377/sr=8-1/ref=pd_ka_1/202-2576860-0931815) Words and Music, which is partly inspired by Lucier's piece.
Thoroughly pretentious tripe (Morely is a name-dropping whore of the highest calibre), but an enjoyable read nonetheless.

I recommend anyone to listen to the original, it's mindfuckingly hypnotic. I never thought I'd hear the sound of a room singing

Headphones on 6/6/2006 at 04:08

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this is really really good and becomes sad and beautiful and haunting by the end (lol im trite)

if someone could link to the original, that would be awesome

more of this please! noid, do you have access to a massive old house with no carpets and lots of champagne flutes?

mega