60pp.; 210 × 297 mm; photocopier.
A visualisation of Alvin Lucier’s 1970 composition
I Am Sitting in a Room. Lucier narrated and recorded a text, played the recording back into
the room through a loudspeaker, and recorded this new playback. This process was repeated through number of generations, the clarity of
his voice deteriorating with each new cycle in a kind of entropic meltdown.
Here, the text was reproduced on a photocopier and the resulting reproduction photocopied;
this new reproduction was then photocopied and so on. The distortions imposed by the machine are exaggerated
exponentially with each new copy,
the irregularities of the machine asserting themselves on the text, the words slowly becoming illegible and dissolving into (visual) noise.
