I Am Sitting In A Room Vinyl

What you will hear then are the.

I am sitting in a room vinyl.

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. As lucier suggests in the recording this sound is the dynamic of the room he records in. I am sitting in a room the same one you are in now. 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.

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. The others are gradually eliminated. 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. Indeed the conceptual crux of the work is a radical reversal of the logic of musical composition.

It is released in two parts on well pressed vinyl. The new recording is then played back and re recorded and. 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.