Motor

Nel libro Metapop di Morley la narrazione esplora il vasto spazio-tempo del pop oscillando attorno a due brani, I can get you out of my head di Kylie Minogue e I'm sitting in a room di Alvin Lucier. Per ora vorrei soffermarmi sul brano di Alvin Lucier, che recita testuale: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of r-r-r-rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity nnnnnot so much as a demonstration of a physical fact, but more as a way to s-s-smooth out any irregularities my speech might have... READ MORE...