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Laurie Anderson «United States, Part 1-4»
Laurie Anderson, «United States, Part 1-4», 1983
© Laurie Anderson


 
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Categories: Sound

Keywords: Music | Pop | Travel

Relevant passages:

icon: authorGolo Föllmer «Audio Art»| icon: authorRudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»| icon: authorDieter Daniels «Sound & Vision in Avantgarde & Mainstream »

Works by Laurie Anderson:

Headphone Hats for War Child| Puppet Motel


New York | United States | multi-media based project
 

 Laurie Anderson
«United States, Part 1-4»

«United States» is Laurie Anderson's first large-scale multimedia narration. It combines what today seems like the storyteller's almost archaic attitude with a wide range of audiovisual equipment. Words, signs and well-known media images appear as associative representations of an intensely recited text. The music has a mystery-ridden character and it places the story being told in the forefront. Even though Anderson's performances call for an extravagant use of multimedia equipment, instead of reflecting High Tech, they reflect more so an experience with profane, everyday media.

 

Golo Föllmer