Furthermore, in its ambient conversion of speech modules into drone frequencies, it unites the two principal structural components of Minimal music in general.
"[1] Lucier was inspired to create I am sitting in a room after a colleague mentioned attending a lecture at MIT in which Amar Bose described how he tested characteristics of the loudspeakers he was developing by feeding back audio into them that they had produced in the first place and then was picked up via microphones.
[6] In collaboration with his partner Mary Lucier, the performance featured projections of Polaroid photographs that had been degraded like the voice.
[citation needed] The text spoken by Lucier describes the process of the work, concluding with a reference to his own stuttering: I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now.
[16][17] In 2013, filmmakers Viola Rusche and Hauke Harder decided to use I am sitting in a room as the "main structuring element" of the documentary "No Ideas but In Things" (2013).