I had recorded a poem or two for a friend of mine (Robert Knapp) the other day and the conclusive best of the lot was one called "Verse Zont". It was cut up type of reading if I recall correctly. I had ran across a musical piece by Alvin Lucier from 1969 called "I am Sitting in a Room" (the original recording can be found here on ubu.com's site). I decided to take the poem and run it through a Lucier inspired recording machine. I copied the instructions for the piece below. Instead of electromagnetic tape, I used computers with 44.1k-16 bit audio with MOTU 828 mk 1 and Lexicon Lambda audio interfaces. I used a Yamaha HS-10 monitor for playback and a Rode NT1A for recording. The room chosen was my living room (see pic above). I choose 8 as the number of times at first, but I ended up doing 10 cause it was fun.
As this is is an indeterminate piece, I will note some entertaining facts about my particular session. Date was April 14 2011 around nightfall. There was a Kansas thunderstorm moving in and you can hear thunder and recursive thunder through out. My cats was also like "WTF" the entire time and there are a few cat reactions to the experiment on the recording. I varied the volume between takes. The posted version is a edited level matched version.
