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).