Savages reveal Alvin Lucier-inspired video for 'I Am Here'

Savages have shared a live clip of their track ‘I Am Here’, shot by Pitchfork TV, which sees the post-punk fourpiece utilise recording devices pioneered by experimental composer Alvin Lucier.

Lucier unveiled his ‘I Am Sitting In A Room’ project back in 1969, which saw the artist recording himself reading a book over and over, overlaying the audio repeating itself with the sound of the room until it was rendered and warped. Likewise, Savages have done the same with this track.

“There’s a real emotional intensity to Savages’ live presence. I was interested in the idea that the band’s performance could be so powerful that it would leave a kind of psychic scar or echo within the performance space. That the sound could become interwoven into the physical structure and sort of “haunt” the building,” director Joshua Zucker-Pluda says of the video.

Savages themselves had this to add: “This process had never been tried with a song before so we had no idea what to expect… sat in the basement all afternoon while the song was being played and recorded in the room 10 times in total, witnessing the slow disintegration of the song until it became really abstract, each instruments merging into the cacophony of this new orchestral autonomous ensemble”.

Watch the clip beneath: