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(Experiment 1)

Resonant
Walkway
Study

This experiment investigates the resonant frequencies and acoustic character of a space through an iterative feedback recording process.
The work uses the surfaces present in the space – in this case, a glass panel – as a speaker. With each iteration, the sound accumulates, becoming more intensified.




Resonant Walkway Study is inspired by sound artist Alvin Lucier's 1969 work "I Am Sitting In A Room" - where he repeatedly records and plays back his own voice reciting a text, each time re-recording the result in the same room. As the process repeats, the room's unique acoustic properties (its resonant frequencies) are reinforced, gradually turning the speech into something else entirely.

This experiment uses the same process, utilizing the space's ambient sound as a feedback loop instead. Through many iterations of recorded sound, the audio recording slowly becomes muffled and echoed.


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Location:         Lasalle level 3 walkway

Time:               8 September 2025, 9pm-10pm

Crowd Level:   Mild, not too crowded

Noise Level:    Medium, with occasional student chatter all around

Application:     2 transducers on a big glass panel


Audio Recordings

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Recording 1, 9.14pm



Recording 2, 9.21pm



Recording 3, 9.35pm



Recording 4, 9.41pm



Recording 5, 10.11pm