I Am Sitting In A Video Room 500

HALFWAY THERE!

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. Please visit: http://www.ontologist.us and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room

Category:

Music

Tags:

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

[AtheisticSpoon]

Immediate reaction:

HOLY SHIT THAT'S FREAKY!!!

[LOADING1357]

Mindfuck.

[carsonlstivers]

This is what it's like watching anime with VLC

[Dxb0y9]

FFFFFFFFFFFuuuuuuuuu**********­****k u made me just and am about to sleep i cant now all from this stupid effect am already freaked from my room and now more

[Evanest25isBack]

It sounds like evil aliens,actually scared me a bit at first.

[MrHyper12345678910]

lol sounds like all the 3D pinball effects crammed into one :P

[cheese27happy]

why does this happen

[b1ueflames]

Sounds like some kind of creature drinking water.

[llewcat]

Lady in labour, shouting the usual shit, "Get this out of me! Give me the drugs!" She turns to her boyfriend and says, "You did this to me, you fucker!" He casually replies, "If you remember, I wanted to stick it up your arse, but you said, 'fuck off it'll be too painful.'"

[florentghys]

nice !

the video becomes more and more beautiful

I think the sound will be better around #750