Totally Wired; No. 1; Performance Art

the advantage then went and dreamy because they take this is harking back to their community really it always tries to a painting or people say as laurie anderson is a multimedia performance artist deciphering the quirks of twenty five to life and kimberly health and this is totally wired it is jd

mine just slightly adrift to this very nice kind of the toughest terrains honestly at times turned out exterior of relaxation and tension that's very nice laurie anderson is a storyteller her tails are collected from the american dream scale of modern technology pop

culture this sound real animation they're sliced diced and blended into a surreal world of displaced artifacts she writes songs of technological alienation she crashed on the second tier two and advanced computer music system of course using technology to criticize itself says a couple of things that you love that indicate it oh it could do that and so you know he really wanted the anti technology and i think some people took that criticism just a stallion to realize that what was being said about it's been said quote there's lots of watson you know lots of cable many say he

yeah it is it's any less it seems that the term foreman was invented just to describe what laurie anderson cancer combination of music theater film and verbal image or her performance has created world that simultaneously unload and eighty the petition

it's been he has this report but she doesn't know exactly focus your attention and what

a change this is the analog version of the sake of their violent city a violin and this works i'm a piano player the playback head of the greenest me that's his gooden to the bridge of the viola and then the un though has a strip of pre recorded audiotape and played that way we have a first version of this site i used to be about the kind of tension that what you see and what you hear is different was i work for the st paul chamber orchestra in which he what you see is a classically dress group of string players but we hear his saxophone cameron says every violin has rigged up that way and like the sink of a violent these are not easy instance played think it's just like editing which is really why

i started making working with this anyway because when you're doing your own engineering playing a violin and then knocking the tape to get the right spot jumping in and pretty soon you realize that this is the same motion and conserve energy i think we can the pain has been and then after that and i became interested in in on basically body of hondurans what happens when languages the first and some of them are very predictable say as always backwards us now is always won on nina celie singing so

one of the first songs was basically say reading meaning what you say and could be played basically say yes say yes sitting in game one in unison like that to this is that another violent to say on battery powered turntable in the needle is in the middle of the bowl and this is set to cut about forty fives forth that where one sustained no crib and actually sounds really terrible this this set violin is owen is one of the most sophisticated of the series the first violin that i irene made was one that hadn't just it cassette i just a speaker inside it to play by itself and to play duets with that live in this case this is a series of it at concerts come

to its allies which i'm like because the the head settlers an endless twenty minute look there's no real stopping point for a concert and so on the timing mechanism became a pair of ice skates at war with their lage frozen and blocks of ice so that when the ice melts and lose your balance the concert is over and tucked in the trees things about the parallels between ice skating and violent land basically blades over surface what it means to play add a letter really what it means to walk in when put one foot in front of the other world or to synchronize yourself with another player that you're walking and the journalist who you listen to

and then she says and he says since nineteen seventy nine most of laurie anderson's music and performances have revolved around her at work united states want to form a sprawling seven and a half hour production thank you oh oh

oh oh oh oh yeah oh oh oh and then came the long run on the phone and then i see his work and wrote it first as an artist and second is a woman as all three of those built in prospective solar power are not very neutral on and on as an artist and i went to sit on its beautiful when the ones to resist a younger man and then monster for me the crabs

i'm an american and that some of the river as you come into our own anything that a lot of people who've looked at america so us or a mark twain and down the mississippi and hemingway no criminal and it seems to be extended just sixteen or something for low opinion as a woman i have an excellent social agenda it's clear i'm not home right now i'm at one of the nsa and just on a camping and sound and then and then i am n

n n n n n n o n and i'm an anglo and then he is in a home and in an alley oh oh oh oh oh oh hip hip so you'd better get ready i'm ready a

day in contradiction between observation you see a violin but use your voice then there's the keynote speaker he had glasses and body percussion in which anderson dismantles an electronic drum machine parts of her body as a booming bass drum sounds her stomach and so on tension and humor in her art exist in that disconnection between what you see here in performance since an accent postpone new consumer electrical outlet who's experience with her closer to her face like kentucky this object to a little animation something like a lot of worsening picture

didn't confuse this idea of life and electricity and live wire simon has so much power just end so that is literally they sort of about the same thing but not quiet city in its edge of the instruments to henry clay what looks like a violin so the table and your sense of home looking at it is

nice where they're

anderson's really nice and soft harmonies is poised to shake that since the harmonizing change the pitch is without changes so the diminutive voice laurie anderson is replaced by this police you billy junior mr ryan's plan to build a tall a political speech and small talk to do more and i was doing as an intern and what's hot summer described as john wayne selling used cars and the thing i like most are doing a kind of a pot that complacency the funniest things to say and that particular one i think that's kind of what stability or maybe he

hoisted oh but typical american character which it most typically is satanic salesman someone who wants to buy insurance really don't meet her little issue seriously dr this is just so persistent and turning in iraq in an odd thing is squeaky voices and language of the fabric of anderson's music or what to say it's not always her support as how it's said listen new mexico it and sunni fest and this is an all night twelve hour film festival

is turkey's government hits who've been working for a year learning the creation myth backwards makeup there and asked how i know sunni side with others navajos came as a nice for ten years and now i'm at the switch here and really kind of getting on another snickering peanuts carrier and at one point around for the morning about twelve characters in masks appeared on end singing very lovely and these characters are singing with craig mack and i had a very strange resonance to the senate hearing a radio or something was this two

rangers experience and that it just didn't seem like voices should come out of those for thank you hoo hoo hoo so consistent it is

i mean there's been this is a narrow immune to two written

things the roots is rhythm critics he has used to keep going in words themselves to be to wonder who that texture in relaxed when team that speech talking much of laurie anderson's recent work and simply appear to involve stitching sampling that is you can record a sound from the real world into the center and played on the keyboard as if it were another voice in the synthesizer by an example to sing you snooze freud's and then played this sample to her apartment is you know and then

so that was a great great and so when we shift on the real singers were actually ever gotten was the slow gears down to be that this aversion which is real only when you got various stages just like the digital recording you will to the new more sophisticated technology gets the single day are simpler to soundscan they become we're actually able to use for oxytocin is a new series of notes that i played place and cheaper technology is that the descendants

of houston with vocal since the assignment to the synthesizers and voices soon computer games it

clings to sing it becomes a feature of music into an annuity and that's really interesting