From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!eagle!mhuxt!mhuxa!mhuxh!mhuxm!pyuxjj!rlr
Newsgroups: net.music
Title: Re: Laurie Anderson
Article-I.D.: pyuxjj.380
Posted: Mon Jan  3 08:44:20 1983
Received: Tue Jan  4 01:47:27 1983
References: watmath.4144

Facts:
Laurie Anderson is a (conceptual?) artist who has recently gotten involved in
the New York "new music" scene.  Using a violin, a vocoder, and electronic
sundries, she produces music like "O Superman" (first record) and the later
album "United States I-IV".  The music is electronic in sound, repetitious
(supposedly a la Glass et al), and features Anderson on vocals (speech over
the music---no "singing" per se, except perhaps through the vocoder).

Opinions:
This woman is about as creative as a toothpick.  In using the "repetitive"
style of minimalists like Philip Glass, she is only repetitious and not much
more.  She apparently has very little to say, judging from the musical sounds
she produces and the words she accompanies them with ("This is your captain;
we are going down...").
Her words reflect the state of her art (and those who find it oh so fashionable
to like her work).