https://vimeo.com/77696725

Watch: “The Other Side” Bill Brown on vimeo. 200 word response.

Is this a structural film? What rules does this film follow, if any? How does the disjointed sound and image

approach work to support the meaning of the film. Do you think the film is overly subjective or objective? Is it clear?
Does the non-synch sound editing techniques distance you as a viewer?

ALVIN LUCIER "I AM SITTING IN A ROOM"

https://vimeo.com/55279047

Ignore the visuals, this is the original recording, which has such a beautiful sonic quality.
If you have a chance today, listen to the whole piece and just write your response. It can be
50-100 words.

I am sitting in a room (1969) is one of composer Alvin Lucier's best known sound art works.

The piece features Lucier recording himself narrating a text, and then playing the tape recording back into the room, re-recording it. The new recording is then played back and re-recorded, and this process is repeated. Since all rooms have characteristic resonance or formant frequencies (e.g. different between a large hall and a small room), the effect is that certain frequencies are emphasized as they resonate in the room, until eventually the words become unintelligible, replaced by the pure resonant harmonies and tones of the room itself.^[1]

Lucier was originally inspired to create I am sitting in a room after a colleague mentioned attending a lecture at MIT in which Amar Bose described how he tested characteristics of the loudspeakers he was developing by feeding back audio into them that they had produced in the first place and then was picked up via microphones.^[2]