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Yes! That's Alvin Lucier and the CD is called "I Am Sitting in a Room" Check out: http://www.cdemusic.org/cgi-bin/cde_search.pl?keywords=aluciercds Recommended! After being inspired by this recording, I've done something similar with an EDP and a SPX-90 reverb. I used the EDP as a long delay line (feedback=0). The set-up looked something like: in out mic -----+-------> EDP >----------| | | | out in | +-------< SPX-90 <-------+ | | | out in | ----------< mixer <-------+------->speakers so a portion of the EDP's output is returned dry to the EDP input and a portion is returned after passing through the reverb. The intention is to simulate Lucier's set-up. Of course, I really used aux/effect send/returns and input channels to realize the set-up but the above diagram shows the signal flow. Mess with the EQ in the mixer path to simulate treblely or bassy rooms, etc. It's a little tricky to get the right gain structure so that the signal level remains approximately the same with each repetition. I had to "ride" the send/returns a bit. Some kind of compressor/limiter would be helpful here. My favorite input material was the local newspaper's High School sports section. The language is suitably inane. I would read one or two paragraphs. As with Lucier's set-up, the sound goes through an amazing transformation, smoothly turning into an abstract sequence of tones. You get a sense of the beauty hidden in even really trite writtings. Never did perform this in public. This set-up required too much prep. Well, there's always the future... Dennis Leas ----------------------------- dennis@mdbs.com -----Original Message----- From: K. Douglas Baldwin <dbaldwin@suffolk.lib.ny.us> To: Sean Witters <seanwitters@hotmail.com>; Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com> Date: Friday, June 04, 1999 11:35 AM Subject: Re: Room sounds > This thread on room sounds reminds me of a process piece, perhaps by Lou >Harrison. The title, as I best recall, was/is "I Am Sitting In A Room..." >and it consists of a short text which is read out loud. The text is the >set >of instructions for performance. Here's a paraphrase: > "I am sitting in a room with a microphone about six feet away. This >microphone's signal is being recorded onto tape. This recording will be >played back from approximately where I am sitting, and recorded again. >This >process will be repeated for as long as is practical, and the entire process >will be recorded." > The resulting recording would then consist of this short spoken piece >repeated over and over, slowly degenerating into room resonance and >circuit >resonance until it sounded like a bit of musique concrete. There may have >even been an instruction to play the entire thing backwards somehow, >allowing the text to emerge from the cloud of resonances. Can anyone >identify this piece better?