“Lucid Room” – a clear homage to Alvin Lucier’s most famous piece “I Am Sitting in a Room”.
Februay 2023. Ideas Block “Kompresorine”. Vilnius, Lithuania.
As part of the collective art exhibition Spacetime Un[b]locked exhibition, at the new Ideas Block’s gallery “Kompresorine”. This gallery had the special feature of having a very long reverb time.
At the time of the exhibition, the elephant in the room is the room itself – this gallery, its dimensions and acoustic properties. Boasting lucidity on the interaction of sound within this
space, this time calls for a nod to the composer, and an obliged playful exploration of the new space at hand and its acoustics. The same method of recording and playback on the same room is at work here, in order to emphasize the resonances natural to the geometry of the gallery, to think about the relationship between sound and space.
The result is an intervention/installation whereby the sound is captured with a microphone in the reverberant room, played back to the room after some delayed and repeating the process in a controlled manner (to avoid feedback explosion) until a drone ambient emerges with the excited natural frequencies of the room, using the sounds that happened in the room as a source.
The sounds below include a performance by the artist, using spoken word as stimulus to the lucidity of the room.
