I Am Sitting In A Zoom, by Tim Shaw and John Bowers

I Am Sitting In A Zoom

by Tim Shaw and John Bowers

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	1.	I Am Sitting In A Zoom (Shaw) 14:56		buy track
	2.	I Am Sitting In A Zoom (Bowers) 14:31		buy track

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Tim Shaw and John Bowers

These two recordings were made while locked down during the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak in 2020. One of us housebound in Switzerland, one in the UK. In tribute and with apology to Alvin Lucier’s I Am Sitting In A Room, we recorded an adapted text and transmitted it to and fro using the online conferencing system Zoom and our own software to automate recording and playback. Our rooms, the noise reduction and compression algorithms of Zoom, and the microphones and speakers in our laptops all contribute to the grinding down of our voices. We stopped this vortex of degradation when speech lost all recognisability - not in an undulating texture of resonances as in Lucier’s work but in silences broken by harsh shards of digital artefacts. One recording works with John Bowers’ voice, one with Tim Shaw’s.

Concept: Tim Shaw, adapting John Bowers and Owen Green, adapting Alvin Lucier

Software: John Bowers

Performance and recording: Tim Shaw and John Bowers

Image: John Bowers

I Am Sitting In A Zoom (Shaw) 14’ 56”

I Am Sitting In A Zoom (Bowers) 14’ 31”

26-27 March 2020

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released March 28, 2020

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