I am sitting in a room
is a piece of experimental music composed by
Alvin Lucier
in 1969. The work is fascinating to me, because the acoustic of the room is at the heart of how the music evolves during the work. Given the importance of the room to how the music sounds, I wanted to see how it would sound in the extraordinary acoustic of the
Inchindown oil tanks that recently got the World Record for the ‘Longest Echo
‘.
The work normally involves saying a spoken phrase in a room, recording that on a microphone before replaying that through the room again and again. So each subsequent rendition has passed through the room many times. What starts as speech is quickly degraded to unintelligible reverberation, before ending up as simple tones as the feedback loop amplifies resonances of the room.
In my rendition, the first recording is within the
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