This weeks presenter was Trstan Louth-Robins, a student in the process of completing his Masters degree in music technology. Mr. Louth-Robins started off his presentation with his proposal for his research, this being defining focused listening and, the relevance of focused listening and the music of Alvin Lucier. He gave a brief history of Lucier's work and then played two examples of his work, the first being Lucier's piece where he is connected to a ECG machine which picks up his brains alpha waves which in return activates various sounds in his performance. The second Lucier piece was 'I'm sitting in a room', in which Lucier uses the room's reverberance to effect a monologue that he recites, records and then plays back. Each generation of this recording then moves further and further away from being legible. It is on this work in particular that Mr. Louth-Robins has based his masters on. Louth-Robins then played and explained his work titled Tpot, a piece in which he recorded the sound inside a tea-pot, then played this sound back through the tea-pot and recording it (ala Lucier's 'I'm sitting in a room),each new generation then produced different frequencies and overtones. He then displayed a spectral analysis of certain generations of these Tpot recordings which showed that certain frequencies were becoming more prevalent.
In the final part of this presentation Mr. Louth-Robins spoke of some of his other works which involved in a great part him himself raiding his flat mates kitchens and confiscating kitchen appliances to produce his works. One of these being the using the reverberance of water in steel bowls to produce certain harmonics by tilting them.
All in all it was a very insightful presentation showing the many varied parameters through which sound art can be produced.
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