Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room

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: ▶ this video

I love the earlier, even more minimal pieces like Music With Changing Parts: link And I love the parallels to things like I Am Sitting In A Room by Alving Lucier: ▶ this video (If you're not familiar with this piece, it might be worth reading about it first - link ) I hesitate to say this because it depends on your tastes, but I'd recommend setting aside the time to listen to these beginning to end if you can. You'll probably feel a bit fidgety for the first 10 / 15 minutes, but in my view it's really worth persevering because I find the payoffs are worth it.

That could be a fun exercise, I'd imagine you might end up with something like "I Am Sitting In A Room" [0][1] [0] link [1] ▶ this video

This is like a physical version of "I Am Sitting In A Room" [0], a classic work of experimental music. In that piece, Alvin Lucier speaks the words "I am sitting in a room different from the the one you are in now..." into a recorder, which is then played back into another recorder, on and on until it becomes unintelligible. [0] ▶ this video

This is a cool homage to Alvin Lucier's I'm Sitting in a Room [1][2]. I was lucky to get a chance to hear Lucier give a colloquium at Brandeis when I was an undergrad---earlier in his career Lucier had been faculty at Brandeis. [1]: link [2]: ▶ this video