lucier

["Louis Collier Hyams" <hyamsl@rpi.edu>]

On Oct 21,  6:30pm, Dave Trenkel wrote:

thanks for explaining the Lucier bit. and my spelling is of course really
bad(thanks for the correction too)

we're currently authoring a cdrom with alvin. my roommate went to do some
interviews with him yesterday. I'll let you guys know about the progress of
the cd "if'n yer intursted"

> Indeed. Alvin Lucier's "I am Sitting in a Room" has got to be one of the
> looping classics. It consists of Lucier sitting in a room with 2 distant
> mics, 2 tape decks, and speakers. The recording begins with Lucier 
>verbally
> describing the process of the piece, which is that he is recording his
> voice, and after recording, he will play that back through the speakers,
> and record that through the mics onto the 2nd tape deck. This continues 
>for
> about 25 generations. At first, you just hear reverberation of the rooms
> acoustics as he replays the tape into the room. Gradually, certain
> frequencies begin to stand out, and by the middle of the 2nd side of the
> lp, you start hearing melodies and textures, while the words are no 
>longer
> distinguishable. It's a fascinating piece, both for the process and the
> musical results.

>
>-- End of excerpt from Dave Trenkel