A closer look
Most artists want their vocals to be crisp, but Alvin Lucier explicitly designed a piece of music to annihilate his own voice. In 1969, he recorded himself simply explaining what he was doing, played that recording back into the room, and recorded that. He repeated this agonizing loop until his speech was completely devoured by the resonant frequencies of the space, turning a simple monologue into a haunting, washed-out drone of pure acoustic feedback. It's a brilliant piece of avant-garde sound art, and arguably the most pretentious way to complain about bad room acoustics.
