1) My senior year roommate at my boarding high school was an avid video game player, specifically Fortnite. I would be sitting at my desk, attempting to do my any sort of school work and my ears would be flooded with a plethora of gun shots, snippets of dance music, and countless other sound affects. One specific compilation of sounds, however, will be permanently engraved in my mind. My roommate would often leave the one screen of the game open while he waiting for his friends to join his game. The background music to this screen consisted of a synthetic drum kit, mysterious and deep sounding bells, and a distorted guitar chords playing in a loop over and over again. While I don’t hear this piece as often as I used to, when I do a certain feeling of nostalgia kicks in and reminds me of all the good memories my roommate and I had in room 409 our senior year.
2) After hearing Lucier mutter the same words over and over again, my mind began to wonder. I focused on the first part of his statement and began to wonder how the room he was sitting in was so explicitly different from the room I found myself in. I was awoken from my thought when I noticed that his words went from decently clear and comprehendible to a string of resonating frequencies. I was expecting his recording to transform into something more melodic, but instead I found that the tones at the end seemed to clash.
