Reading Response 2–Sitting In A Room (Tina Zhang)

I first listen to the piece without reading the article, thus, I feel a little confused at the beginning. And I can hear the speaker’s speaking with a stutter. I don’t know if he means to be like that or not, but as for my first impression, I don’t think it will turn into a beautiful music piece. But with the time passes by, at the point around 20 minutes, I can hardly hear the exact words, instead, the echoes enhance and frequency becomes clearer.

It is a brand new way to me that making music pieces simply through speaking. As stated in the article, “rather than using traditionally musical means to create sounds, Lucier used a technological process to reveal naturally occurring acoustic phenomena”. This piece provides people with a new way of generating the music, just like what we have seen in the class, the man uses items in life, like the bathtub, bottles, oven and so on to create a piece of music performance. 

It reminds me of one light and sound show I saw this summer vacation. It is a show that uses light and sound to make you feel in different places. A part of the sound is a record of thunder, raindrops, and the sound of birds and winds. Also, as mentioned in the class, we will never be in a 100% environment because we breathe, the blood flows, all these make sounds. We live in a world which is full of sounds, therefore, even though the music made by instruments are great and beautiful, sometimes it is good to go back to the origin of nature, to enjoy a different type of music.

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