“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. ...”
YouTube: The end of the moon (Legendado), The beginning of memory, "The Speed of Darkness" The Shaughnessy, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN Feb 8, 1997. 1:37:14
2008 June: Laurie Anderson, 2009 December: Personal Service Announcements, 2011 February: Home studio (late 80's), 2011 March: I Don't Need It, I Don't Want It, And You Cheated Me Out of It, 2011 October: Big Science, 2011 October: Delusion, 2013 June: United States Live, 2021 December: Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans
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