84. Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room (1981)
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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.
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that is all that this album is....this man saying that and recording it...then playing it back into the same room and recording that and then repeat over and over and over
what happens is amazing...slowing but surely all humanity leaves his voice and pure resonance takes over...creating an ambient texture unlike any you've ever heard which progressively get deeper and deeper
i'm not saying that this is an album you're going to go bumping while cruising with your friends...but if you really love music the way i love music...the way many of the people here love music....this is a wonderful experiment as to way frequencies and in particular resonance....effect us
a real must for anyone interested in the science of sound and the psychological effect of music