I Am Sitting In A Room Alvin Lucier

Attempting to smooth out his stutter he began with the lines i am sitting in a room the same one you are in now.

I am sitting in a room alvin lucier.

I am recording the sound of my speaking voice. Interviewed by frank j. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. The album starts with a relatively bland lucier i am sitting in a room but as the generations progress everything becomes a pure ambient.

I am sitting in a room is alvin lucier s idea of pure sound experiments. 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. Complete your alvin lucier collection. Alvin lucier february 9 2005.

Oteri published april 1 2005. The new recording is then played back and re recorded and. I am sitting in a room different. From i am sitting in a room lovely music ltd 1981.

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. Discover releases reviews credits songs and more about alvin lucier i am sitting in a room at discogs. Sitting in a room with alvin lucier. I am sitting in a room 1969 by alvin lucier real time realization by christopher burns 2000 alvin lucier discography at musicbrainz.

Through playback and recording of successive generations of his own voice the sound is washed until his talking is a pure harmonic. This recording was made by alvin lucier on october 29th and 31st 1980 in the living room of his home in middletown ct. Alvin lucier papers 1939 2015 music division the new. The material was recorded on a nagra tape recorder with an electro voice 635 dynamic microphone and played back on one channel of a revox a77 tape recorder dynaco amplifier and a klh model six loudspeaker.

Sitting in a room with alvin lucier the 83 year old us composer was in dundalk at the weekend to discuss and perform his seminal work sitting in a room.