I Am Sitting In A Video Room 50

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
• liddel
• lidell
• lidel
• lucier
• alvin
• codec
• resolution
• filter
• repetition
• digital
• noise
• loss
• quality
• copy
• repeat

[radicalone4]

You sound like hollow ichigo

[sonynamase]

like Yoda hi sounds :)

[rouing2]

this shows how our codex sucks

[EmperorOfMars]

space moster

[ohnoaperson543]

reminds me of the Origin from Vlog Candy. Not as good of sound as the origin had though. most people have no idea wtf im talking about.

[DoingThingsAlone]

Anyone else think the audio wants to make you puke?

[Kagelski]

DARTH VADOR ATTACKS

[3ventHoriz0n]

@sonynamase

lol that made me laugh