I Am Sitting In A Video Room 175

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

[C4Real3Danimation]

Ha! Sounds like the Aliens from District 9! PRawn Oi!

[Tehsusenoh]

All I could think was, "My god, it's full of stars."

[paulman64]

i watch every one now my haed hurts because your squeky voice

[codyrocks100]

@Matrixcraft o my bad lol

[Matrixcraft]

@codyrocks100 lol its 0:33

[Matrixcraft]

@codyrocks100  lol

[tommyssoriano]

as you command master jajaja 

[codyrocks100]

0:35 - 0:37 he says sexy cream puffs

[8daystillmonday]

You literally sound like a Zerg cerebrate in this one.

[ElGuybrush]

I'm not sure but I think he just demanded a million dollars for the safe return of my sanity

[TheDMD42396]

this is kinda cool