Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room
Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2016–2023.
Alvin Lucier's 1969 minimalist piece in which a spoken text is repeatedly played back and re-recorded in a room until the room's resonances replace the words. This is the 1981 Lovely Music recording.
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frereubuApr 2023Recommends
I love the earlier, even more minimal pieces like Music With Changing Parts: [link] And I love the parallels to things like I Am Sitting In A Room by Alving Lucier: ▶ this video (If you're not familiar with this piece, it might be worth reading about it first - [link] ) I hesitate to say this because it depends on your tastes, but I'd recommend setting aside the time to listen to these beginning to end if you can. You'll probably feel a bit fidgety for the first 10 / 15 minutes, but in my view it's really worth persevering because I find the payoffs are worth it.
in “If Philip Glass Were a Film” · View on HN
austinjpNov 2023Cites it
A piece of sound art in which Alvin Lucier repeatedly played back and re-recorded his voice in a room, until his words became completely unintelligible, and only resonant frequencies of the room remained. It's a pivotal piece of minimalist music. Edit to add link to YouTube of the recording: ▶ this video
in “I Am Sitting in a Room (1969)” · View on HN
kamihekuDec 2022Cites it
That could be a fun exercise, I'd imagine you might end up with something like "I Am Sitting In A Room" [0][1] [0] [link] [1] ▶ this video
in “Enhance Speech from Adobe – Free AI filter for cleaning up spoken audio” · View on HN
necubiOct 2020Cites it
This is like a physical version of "I Am Sitting In A Room" [0], a classic work of experimental music. In that piece, Alvin Lucier speaks the words "I am sitting in a room different from the the one you are in now..." into a recorder, which is then played back into another recorder, on and on until it becomes unintelligible. [0] ▶ this video
in “Teageneration (or: why I don’t trust transporters) (2016)” · View on HN
thevibesmanMay 2016Cites it
This is a cool homage to Alvin Lucier's I'm Sitting in a Room [1][2]. I was lucky to get a chance to hear Lucier give a colloquium at Brandeis when I was an undergrad---earlier in his career Lucier had been faculty at Brandeis. [1]: [link] [2]: ▶ this video
in “This Is What Happens When You Re-Upload a YouTube Video 1,000 Times (2010)” · View on HN