I Am Sitting In A Video Room 1000

WATCH ALL 1000 HERE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icruGcSsPp0

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I started this project exactly 1 year ago, almost to the hour. The final version is a lot different than I thought it would be, I was expecting a lot more digital video noise, and a lot less digital audio noise. Let this be a lesson, though, always be careful how you convert your digital media!

An homage to the great Alvin Lucier, this piece explores the 'photocopy effect', where upon repeated copies the object begin to accumulate the idiosyncrasies of the medium doing the copying. Full words: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice as well as the image of myself, and I am going to upload it to YouTube, rip it from YouTube, and upload it again and again, until the original characteristics of both my voice and my image are destroyed. What you will see and hear, then, are the artifacts inherent in the video codec of both YouTube and the mp4 format I convert it to on my computer. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a digital fact, but more as a way to eliminate all human qualities my speech and image might have.

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• liddell
• lucier
• alvin
• codec
• resolution
• filter
• repetition
• digital
• noise
• loss
• quality
• copy
• repeat

[srpollisimo90]

is he talking in vagina language????

[Coinwalker]

In soviet russia if you upload 1000 times a video, the video gets high quality

[Vinomadd]

That sound will haunt my dreams.

[ted3681]

EAR RAPE



[it549]

So you're saying we invade china?

[magnificentjosh]

Alvin Lucier, using analogue tape, ended up producing a beautiful, reverberant ringing noise. Digital encoding produces this...

[jlsrobinson]

this guy has ALOT of time on his hands

[ingersollturok]

I have a filter in Adobe that can do this in like 5 seconds.

[Ligermorph]

Must. Kill. John Lennon.

[kill40001000]

It actually took him a year to do this :O

[Squidpus]

I wonder if the result would be the same if filmed in 1080p with YouTube's new options.

[ZachHale8]

Awesome! What a new way to make a homage to Alvin Lucier!