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Alvin Lucier: I Am Sitting in a Room

A channel · Music · 45 min · 2017 · YouTube title: Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting in a Room
Why it's here

HN people cite it as a canonical example of iterative degradation and as an analogy for repeated copying, AI bot loops, and dissociative listening.

What it covers

A performance recording of Alvin Lucier's 1969 experimental piece in which a spoken text is repeatedly played back and re-recorded in a room until the room's resonances overwhelm the words. It is a landmark of electronic and conceptual music.