Monday, April 20, 2009

"I Am Sitting In A Room" (Lucier, 1970) for MacBook and TextEdit

An audio/video version of Alvin Lucier's seminal work "I Am Sitting In A Room" for acoustic spaces, recording devices and spoken voice can be found below. It features a MacBook and TextEdit.


I Am Sitting In A Room (MacSpeech and TextEdit Version) from sebastian tomczak on Vimeo.




8 comments:

Tristan Louth-Robins said...

Awesome! Nice realisation. Though the link to the video didn't work when I tried it.

andrezj said...

didn't work here either, but looking forward to see it!

Sebastian Tomczak said...

I have updated the post and uploaded the video to Vimeo instead of YouTube. Sorry about the wait, gentlemang!

misoft said...

fantastik!

Tristan Louth-Robins said...

Nice work.

I am curious as to how you came to reinterpret the work itself using this approach. As you're aware, I have researched this work inside out and I'm always interested in reinterpretations of it.

Sebastian Tomczak said...

Hi Tristan! Actually, this is a compromise. We originally had planned to do the speech in hardware using a speak and spell, but the unit wasn't working at all. So we had to go with a virtual voice, which is not favourable but was the only choice. On the other hand, the mac speech is an iconic sound anyway, so I guess it worked out.

Anonymous said...

Very nice! Love how you realised the text! Also that AppleTalk voice is so cool _O_

Suzan said...

This cannot truly work, I believe so.