Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room

self-explanatory. Also on my website www.thelayreader.com

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[BACHINA123]

Hell yeah i jam to this song in my car every day.

[albiegit]

Pretentious?

There's nothing pretentious in what Lucier did. It was an intimate personal struggle that oozes strong understated feelings, and at the same time a major experimental breakthrough.

Pretentious is someone pretending to judge a masterpiece without any kind of knowledge or empathy, and contemporarily trying to define the confines of music like a fearful and mindless conservative would do.

Just the opposite of what Alvin Lucier did. He opened himself to the world and won.

[ThePaulHealy]

the voice of a poet. reminds me of W.S. Graham.

[Kruzhh]

This piece of audio is detemporising. Which means that when you actually relax and listen to the whole piece, time feels to slow down untill it seems that time doesn't excist anymore.

[leopies]

It's like a Radiohead album

[vwardv]

just reading words and music by Paul Morley which talks about this track. Thanks for posting.

[Harpster69]

yeah, your right, he did stutter... it wasn't intentional as he has a stutter and the distortion of it being re-recorded is a way of cutting it out of his speech, a guess it was a sort of therapy for him... kind of sentimental really...

[Danzig36]

Simplistic Brilliance!!! Thank you for sharing. You are my "Youtube muse" for the day

[Erniza Scarlet]

suck in noise..



[Healthypig1423]

You win the internets.

[John Doe]

daisy, daisy.......

[John Doe]

but i came.