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Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room Mp3

Alvin Lucier Lovely Music Ltd Experimental Minimal Ambient 1981

Performer: Alvin Lucier
Album: I Am Sitting In A Room
Label: Lovely Music, Ltd.
Catalog #: VR 1013
MP3: 2856 mb | FLAC: 2369 mb
Released: 1981
Country: US
Style: Experimental, Minimal, Ambient
Rating: 4.1/5
Votes: 313
Category: Electronic

Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room Mp3

Tracklist

1	I Am Sitting In A Room Pt. II	23:10
2	I Am Sitting In A Room Pt. I	21:50

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
LCD 1013	Alvin Lucier	I Am Sitting In A Room ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Lovely Music, Ltd.	LCD 1013	US	Unknown
none	Alvin Lucier	I Am Sitting In A Room ‎(Cass, Unofficial)	Not On Label	none	Italy	2016

Credits

Design – Darlene Bruns, Patrick Vitacco
Edited By [Tape Editor] – Bob Bielecki
Photography By – Mary Lucier

Notes

I am sitting in a room is Alvin Lucier's idea of pure sound experiments. Through playback and recording of successive generations of his own voice the sound is washed until his talking is a pure harmonic. The album starts with a relatively bland Lucier.."I am sitting in a room" but as the generations progress everything becomes a pure ambient. As Lucier suggests in the recording, this sound is the dynamic of the room he records in. It is released in two parts on well pressed vinyl.

This record was made by the composer on October 29 and 31, 1980 in the living room of his home in Middletown, Connecticut. It consists of thirty-two generations of the composer's speech and was made expressly for this Lovely Music record.
Photography is from the original Polaroid Image Series by Mary Lucier.

Companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Alvin Lucier
Copyright (c) – Vital Records

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Gir

This is not a new idea. Steve Reich (and probably others) did this allready in 1966 with his song "come out". See discogs release "Steve Reich / Richard Maxfield / Pauline Oliveros - New Sounds In Electronic Music" or "Steve Reich - Early Works". Way better and less boring than this.

Respectfully, that's fucking bullshit, as others on this thread have mercifully pointed out. Still, keep flexing your opinions as if you have the faintest idea what you're talking about.

This is not even close to being the same, Lucier is replaying the sound into a room multiple times to reinforce that specific room's resonances (standing waves). In "Come out", Reich plays two identical tape samples with a small variation in length next to each other, so that they start out in unison and goes out of sync gradually, causing artificial reverberation and later canon. Both are excellent, but "Come Out" does not involve any natural reverberation or room. Different methods, different results.

I have to respectfully disagree with your assessment. While Reich and Lucier both utilised voice and tape recorder in the conceptions of their pieces, the creative processes and outcomes could not be more different. Reich's "Come Out" is a study of audio phasing, a technical procedure by which a full range of rhythmic and harmonic interplay is explored throughout the duration of the piece. Lucier's "I Am Sitting in a Room" is more about a technical procedure in which the harmonic frequencies in any given room or performance space are exposed through the repeated playback and re-recording of his voice.

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