Listening and Reading Response 2

Having listened to Lucier’s “I am Sitting in a Room” in which the sound of the room was gradually reverberated to playing back repetitions of the original speech 32 times, I noticed how sound gradually became more wet as time went on. In addition the density reverb of the piece gradually increases which causes the sounds to be more aggressive in nature where the decay time also became longer, hence there was constant pitches at all times from the middle onwards. Due to the decay time being longer, it created the sensation that the room that Lucier was in was gradually getting larger and larger. This is similar to the concept of space mentioned in the reading where space is incommensurable as the sound of space is varying causing the shape of sound to continuously modify. But from a philosophical perspective, space is a construct that was created by humans when they viewed the world. The acoustic space is likewise a construct that was built upon visual space, complementary to each other. As the piece is without visuals, there is a lack of visual space that can be seen, but it becomes imagined. The shape of this space cannot be understood from the most basic audio, but when the audio is reverberated to include the sound of the space, acoustic space can thus be visualized and from acoustic space, the visual space can be imagined to be expanding due to the traits mentioned above.