Album, You, Old
Happy 30th birthday, Laurie Anderson's Big Science! You've meant an awful lot to me over the years.
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Difficult Listening Hour: An Introduction to Laurie Anderson
About this time last year, an editor of this site and I were emailing back and forth about fun things to maybe write. (The formula was basically: negligible numbers of comments + high degree of personal satisfaction = let's rock.) Along those lines, he proposed a column: "Also do you want to write about weird music in general??? Stuff that editors are like 'Ha um NO THANKS.' Difficult Listening Hour with SCW. Heh." This was the first time anyone had proposed, to me, a recurring feature based on a piece from smack dab in the middle of Laurie Anderson's 7-hour performance work "United States I-IV". (The clip of "Difficult Listening [...]
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'Satyagraha' and Occupy Lincoln Center, Last Night
The biggest opera house in the United States concluded its performance on time last night, at 11:15 p.m. Many of the nearly 4,000 people in attendance at the Met lingered in their seats for a bit, the better to praise the cast, orchestra and conductor—as well as to see if Philip Glass would take a curtain call. A number would have heard that the composer of Satyagraha, an opera about the life (sorta) and philosophical lineage (more consequentially) of Gandhi, was meant to have already spoken, at 10:30 p.m., to the Occupy Lincoln Center group just outside. When Glass did at last appear on stage, he was met with a [...]
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Laurie Anderson Frightens Millennial
Local blog youth disturbed by world's most important performance artist on Letterman, gets thoroughly roasted by commenters.
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The Best Description of New York City
Free Williamsburg: What do you think of Williamsburg?
Laurie Anderson: I think it's a pretty cool thing. I mean I'm kind of amazed that so many people are doing paintings again. I love it, I just love paintings, but I thought we were going in a whole other realm of doing stuff on the web or whatever, not just sitting around and making paintings, like the 1950s or something. But, there are some good paintings! Every time you say something about New York, and you think you've got it all figured out and you think you understand it, along comes a painter that goes "Hey, check out [...]
