{"id":4793,"date":"2009-10-11T19:10:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T23:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2009-10-11T19:10:11","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T23:10:11","slug":"my-name-is-not-alvin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/my-name-is-not-alvin\/","title":{"rendered":"My Name is not Alvin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/alucier.web.wesleyan.edu\/\">Alvin Lucier<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Am_Sitting_in_a_Room\">I Am Sitting in a Room<\/a>&#8221; I thought it would be interesting to attempt a recreation with the tools I had on hand. Rather than shuffling tapes around, I recorded on my iPod Touch, and then e-mailed the file to my laptop to play back. I repeated this sixteen times. This is what I ended up with: <a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/my_name_is_not_alvin.mp3\">my name is not alvin<\/a> [mp3].<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00014-20091011-1552x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4795 aligncenter\" title=\"&quot;My Name is not Alvin&quot; recording rig\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00014-20091011-1552x.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;My Name is not Alvin&quot; recording rig\" width=\"294\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00014-20091011-1552x.jpg 294w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00014-20091011-1552x-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure all I ended up recording was the hard drive and the backlight on my MacBook. By the final iteration, the cricket-like chirping is centred pretty close to 5400 and 16000 Hz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first heard of Alvin Lucier&#8216;s &#8220;I Am Sitting in a Room&#8221; I thought it would be interesting to attempt a recreation with the tools I had on hand. Rather than shuffling tapes around, I recorded on my iPod Touch, and then e-mailed the file to my laptop to play back. I repeated this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[1102,1422,102,47,1318],"class_list":["post-4793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audblog","tag-audacity","tag-crickets","tag-ipod","tag-music","tag-reverb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1fj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4796,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}