ALVIN LUCIER I Am Sitting In A Room LP John Cage Fluxus
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Alvin Lucier -- I Am Sitting In A Room LP
Original 1981 US release on Lovely Music (New York NY) (catalog # VR 1013).Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting In A Room is a seminal work of 20th century music, one of the most original pure sound experiments ever undertaken. The composer speaks a few sentences into a recorder. The sentences are played, retaped, and played again until the natural resonancy of the room gradually transform the words into pure sound. Musical tones emerge, new sounds develop until what originally started as voice becomes something totally different. To listen to this piece from beginning to end is a marvelous experience and as close to entering an altered state of reality as music will take you.
Through playback and recording of successive generations of his own voice the sound is washed until his talking is a pure harmonic. The album starts with a relatively bland Lucier.."I am sitting in a room" but as the generations progress everything becomes a pure ambient. As Lucier suggests in the recording, this sound is the dynamic of the room he records in. It is released in two parts on well pressed vinyl.
This record was made by the composer on October 29 and 31, 1980 in the living room of his home in Middletown, Connecticut. It consists of thirty-two generations of the composer's speech and was made expressly for this Lovely Music record.
This LP is on The Wire's list of 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (While No One Was Listening).
Tracks:
- A I Am Sitting In A Room Pt. I 21:50 B I Am Sitting In A Room Pt. II 23:10
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