I need to be honest that I almost fell asleep when I listened to the audio since I really found a comfortable and quiet place (my bed). For the first 8 minutes (I checked the time because I was almost asleep) I have been trying to distinguish what Alvin Lucier is saying, from the audio that is getting more and more ambiguous. After a while, I heard a regular sound, I don’t know how to describe it, but the frequency of the wave should be a very regular arc. And then the audio gets more and more ambiguous, all I can hear is the arc, no words anymore.
Popular music is almost what I listen for audio arts. But popular music can be replayed and remade for so many times, but I Am Sitting In A Room cannot be replayed. It is like the saying “a man cannot step into the same river”, the architectural particularity of a given space, the rhythm Lucier talks, the time, they all matter too much. Maybe my level is not high enough to appreciate such a kind of art piece, but it does give people a precious experience to hear, to understand how the sound is produced and what is its nature, what it will be like in the ending end.