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Silver Member Username: Lovegasoline
NYC
Post Number: 114
Registered: Jul-05
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| Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 05:04 am: |
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'I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of r-r-r-rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity nnnnnot so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to s-s-smooth out any irregularities my speech might have.'
That is the text of Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting in a Room," and it describes what he does over the forty minutes of the piece.
A fascinating methodology for listening to the room rather than the music.
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Gold Member Username: Nuck
Parkhill,
Ontario
Canada
Post Number: 1090
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 07:22 pm: |
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I have done that in vocal lessons and it drove me nnnnuts.
I understand your interest, gas, I cant do it without a glass or two of chardonnay. |
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