Motoki Ohkubo: 私は.MP3の中に座っています (I Am Sitting In A.MP3)

Title:

私は.MP3の中に座っています (I Am Sitting In A.MP3)

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):

Motoki Ohkubo

Symposium:

ISEA2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Creation Year:

2014

Medium:

MP3

Artist Statement:

The title of this piece refers to Alvin Lucier’s I am Sitting in a Room (1969), in which Lucier records himself narrating a text and then plays the recording back into the room, effectively re-recording it. To create this new work, Ohkubo compresses sound using an MP3 converter, creating a disruption, and repeats the process in order to explore the aesthetic of glitch and experience the beauty of morphing sounds.