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A piece of sound art in which Alvin Lucier repeatedly played back and re-recorded his voice in a room, until his words became completely unintelligible, and only resonant frequencies of the room remained. It's a pivotal piece of minimalist music.

Edit to add link to YouTube of the recording: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fAxHlLK3Oyk

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This is one of my all time favourites- the sounds that end up being brought to the surface as the tape is recorded over itself are really haunting.

If anyone's interested but not enough to listen to the whole thing- listen to the first half a minute and then the last!

> If anyone's interested but not enough to listen to the whole thing- listen to the first half a minute and then the last!

This is what I always do when showing other people this song. A 20 or 40 minute track is not an easy sell lol, especially this repetitive. But showing them 20 seconds from the start, middle, and end always gets a wow. Half of them usually want to hear the whole thing after that. And half of those turn it off after 5 minutes haha.

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