My Take On Alvin Lucier's "I Am Sitting In a Room"

After each recording I recorded the previously recorded recording. I did this 25 times. The noise that you hear at the end are the natural frequencies of the room that I happen to be in. Because of time constraints I cold not record the original words that Mr. Lucier said which are,

"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 rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but, more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my speech might have."

I believe he explains it very well.

P.S. The noise kept on getting really loud so there are a few parts where the volume was turned down.

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[ken131]

Cool cover of an awesome song.

[icceeQueen]

It gets really noisy

[Saelleris]

@criox12 Really? If you listen to the end of the second to last bar, there's a popping noise.

[criox12]

@Saelleris I don't think that was a facebook noise actually... all I had open was garage-band when I made the recordings. Just a weird recording thing I guess.

[Saelleris]

Actually, more like 3:30

[Saelleris]

AHAHAHA OH MY GOD. 3:35. You hear a facebook IM noise. I got sooo confused cuz I have facebook open but I couldn't find the chat anywhere. Well played, criox12.

[mikestopcontinues]

If you want the natural resonate frequency of the room, you should use white noise. That's why Lucier specifies "natural resonate frequency of the room ARTICULATED BY SPEECH".

Nice, mostly because your sounds are mostly clipping and distortion, and not the room's resonance.

[Satlam]

An experiment like this also perpetuates any shortcomings in the reproduction/recording chain. It seems some of those recordings are distorted, and in turn are affecting the result.