Here’s a piece I made that draws on Alvin Lucier’s technique from “I am sitting in a room.” Lucier’s work makes use of room acoustics to slowly transform a tape loop into a collection of tones and pitches over many repetitions. When I’ve performed Lucier’s piece it usually takes 30 minutes or so to get really going, depending on the room.
I made this work as a way to use the technique in live performance and manipulate it a little more. I use a Nagra SN to record the words of a poet local to wherever I’m performing (this performance was an online performance several years ago so I used an early digital native text). That signal is then fed into a very intense set of impulse responses of my old studio space to “speed up” the process of transforming the tape to noise/feedback which I then use as source for modular manipulations.
Here’s a clip from a performance of “I am sitting in a room” by my experimental music collaborative, Community of Sound, during our AM Frequency Series (experimental music at 7:30am at a local coffeeshop). This performance was great and people definitely had their day improved by encountering it on their way to work that Friday morning. 
