​Little Glitches: Laurie Anderson’s Big Science

 
“Laurie Anderson’s 1982 debut LP Big Science opens as if her voice has been waiting for us to show up: ‘Good Evening. This is your captain.’ ... And since the 1970s, Laurie Anderson has explored the glitches and inhumanities of systems far more diffuse than air traffic control: her topics include language, sound, business, and technology at large. Early in her career, small new works came fast across a variety of media, and so her project became one of organizing, juxtaposing, and optimizing them. Her initial audience was mostly fellow downtown NYC artists, but factual talk of her eventual stardom was in the air. ...”

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