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Laurie Anderson’s 'Amelia' is due August 30. Her first new album since 2018’s 'Landfall,' it comprises twenty-two tracks about renowned female aviator Amelia Earhart’s tragic last flight. An autographed print is available with Nonesuch Store pre-orders.
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40 Years! Big Science. Hallelujah Every man, every man for himself Big Science. Hallelujah. Yodellayheehoo 'Cause when love is gone There's always justice And when justice is gone There's always force And when force is gone, There's always Mom. Hi Mom! Ha ha ha ha.
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Laurie Anderson
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Big Science LP has been reissued on red vinyl. It's been out of print for 30 years. Get yours while they last!
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I don’t listen back to my records often but I did for this reissue and I was surprised how fresh it still sounds, 40 years later. Thanks for listening! #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Good evening. This is your Captain. We’re about to attempt a Listening Party. #BigScience . This is the time, And this is the record of the time. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie's Tiny Desk Concert for @nprmusic is now up for viewing. Joined by Roma Baran and Rubin Kodheli, they perform Let X=X and O Superman from Big Science.
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The Art of the Straight Line, a book of essential wisdom covering Tai Chi, mindfulness, creativity, and the art of living and dying goes on sale March 14 and is available for preorder. It will be published by Faber in the UK & Ireland on March 16th.
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Sisters with Transistors, the untold story of women who pioneered electronic music - narrated by me - opened this past Friday on Trailer: @SisWTransistors @MetrographNYC
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We pressed 1,000 copies, and I’d individually mail each one. Then suddenly John Peel started playing it on his radio show and it went to #2 in the UK. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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"There was something about Massenet's aria 'O Souverain'—which inspired 'O Superman'—that almost stopped my heart. The pauses, the melody ... A prayer about empire, ambition, and loss." —Laurie You can watch the video and pre-order #BigScience vinyl at
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"I'm an extremely optimistic person, and so I choose not to ignore these problems. But also not to be overwhelmed by them. I still want to do every single thing I can to make the world a wonderful, beautiful, exciting place." —Laurie in @NoiseyMusic
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Laurie's first-ever collaboration w/ @KronosQuartet , #Landfall , inspired by her experience of Hurricane Sandy, is due February 16 on @NonesuchRecords . Pre-order to download a track now & get a limited-edition print signed by Laurie:
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Last week Laurie, Peter Gordon ( @pglolo ), and @DavidVanTieghem performed some Big Science material at the Javits Center vaccination site thanks to @NYPopsUp
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Laurie's 1982 debut album, #BigScience , returns to #vinyl for the first time in 30 years with a new red vinyl edition on April 9. @NonesuchRecords Store pre-orders include an exclusive, limited-edition autographed print. You can reserve yours at
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"I really want to make things that break your heart," Laurie tells @Dazed of her new VR piece with Hsin-Chien Huang, To the Moon. "I don’t want to make it clever or interesting—if it’s like that, good. But I want to create an emotional situation."
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Laurie Anderson
7 years
Laurie's "Big Science" has made @NPRmusic 's list of The 150 Greatest Albums Made by Women
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Why aren’t there more songs about falling out of love? 💔 #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
7 years
Laurie was awarded the insignia of Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in a ceremony at @FranceinNYC
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3 years
The song is based around a looped “ha ha ha ha” done on a harmoniser, but I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus so I used a vocoder, which was originally developed as spy technology to disguise voices. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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"Since I was a kid, I was in love with the sky, the beauty of it, the freedom of it, like I could just float up forever," Laurie tells @BBCRadio4 @BBCFrontRow 's @tds153 in a conversation about the upcoming album 'Amelia,' about Amelia Earhart. 🔊
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
NYC on 1/31: Laurie hosts a birthday party for Philip Glass' 85th at the @rockcenternyc rink. info/tickets at the link @PomegranateArts @philipglass
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Thank you to everyone who tuned in to watch the Norton Lecture series "Spending the War Without You." All 6 lectures are available to watch any time on youtube.
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’Cause when love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi Mom! #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
In September 2001 I was on tour and played it at Town Hall in New York City. The show was one week after 9/11. “Here come the planes / They’re American planes.” #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Electronic breathing. Loops were actual analog tape loops, strung around the room, looping over chairs and doorknobs. The music was a combination of homemade electronics and sophisticated processors. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
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#BigScience was about technology, size, industrialization, shifting attitudes toward authority, and individuality. It was sometimes alarmist, picturing the country as a burning building, a plane crash. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Inspired by the beautiful 19th-century aria by Massenet that began: “O sovereign …” A prayer to authority, which I thought was interesting, so I started writing: “O Superman …” #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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6 years
"When I hear these songs, I can hear the places where they were recorded." Laurie talks with @NYtimes ' @Tmagazine about revisiting her work from the early '80s, including "O Superman."
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#OTD in 1937—Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific while attempting to become the first female pilot to circumnavigate the globe. Lyrics for "Radio," from the upcoming album 'Amelia,' are inspired by radio logs of her final communications with US Coast Guard cutter Itasca.
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6 years
have a look at To The Moon, the latest VR work by Laurie and Hsin-Chien Huang now on display at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark. courtesy of @CNNStyle
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Laurie Anderson
2 years
In case you missed the Tibet House performance last month, here’s a clip
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Watch Laurie Anderson perform alongside cellist Rubin Kodheli and flutist Tenzin Choegyal at a 2022 virtual benefit concert for the Tibet House U.S.
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
A remix of Laurie's song #BigScience by @arca1000000 —the musician, singer, composer, and producer Alejandra Ghersi Rodriguez—is out now on @NonesuchRecords :
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Laurie Anderson
6 years
Laurie Anderson & @KronosQuartet are nominated for #GRAMMYS for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance for the @NonesuchRecords album #Landfall ! Thank you, @RecordingAcad . You can hear the album at
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Laurie was on @BBC6Music 's 'Radcliffe and Maconie' to talk with @StuartMaconie about her upcoming @NonesuchRecords album, 'Amelia,' and share her selections for the show's First, Last, and Everything segment. You can hear it from 90 minutes in:
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Laurie's virtual-reality film La Camera Insabbiata, with Hsin-Chien Huang, has won the Venice Film Festival Award for Best VR Experience!
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Let x=x. Wow this equation is timeless. How often can you be right before it gets really tiresome? #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
4 years
Reminder: Heart of a Dog will be airing on TV this week! Wednesday at 10:15AM EST on @tcm as part of their Women Make Film series.
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
The album is series of short stories about odd characters—hatcheck clerks and pilots, preachers, drifters and strangers. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
I used all the instruments that I was using on the road, including the vocoder, which gave the voice a choir effect, and the harmonizer, which I used as a pitch shifter as well as a loop generator. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
2 years
new live dates! April 22. Mulhouse, France April 24. Nantes, France April 26. Dublin, Ireland Info and ticket links can be found at
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
7 years
"Some say our empire is passing, as all empires do."
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Laurie Anderson
8 years
Laurie reads the Adrienne Rich poem "What Kind of Times Are These" at @PENamerican #WritersResist @nypl event
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie, Terry Riley, and John Zorn will give four special trio performances over two nights at @TheChapelSF , May 17 & 18. Tickets are on sale now:
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Working on a follow up to this song called Big Pharma. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
In the early and mid ’70s I traveled a lot. My plan was to make a portrait of the USA. #BigScience was the first part of the puzzle that eventually became part 2 of the United States I–IV (Transportation, Politics, Money, Love). #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
7 years
Here's a bit of two new Laurie & @KronosQuartet tracks—"The Water Rises" & "Our Street Is a Black River"—from the album #Landfall , due Feb. 16. Watch the full video & get the tracks now when you pre-order the album:
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
A round of applause for the claps by co-producer Roma and assistant producer Perry, who also did the artwork. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
6 years
Sharing a primal scream (inspired by @yokoono ) at @TownHallNYC , celebrating the release of Laurie’s new book, All the Things I Lost in the Flood.
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Some of the musicians on #BigScience had performed with me. I didn’t have a band, we invented other small ensembles by bringing in musicians to play on certain tracks. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
In 1979, Iranian students stormed the US embassy in Tehran. America went blazing in with helicopters to get the hostages out. But it backfired majorly. So I thought I’d write a song about all that and the failure of technology. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
6 years
🇦🇺 Down Under in Hobart, Tasmania, for @Dark_Mofo last night.
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“The United States is the oldest country in the world because it’s been in the 20th century the longest.” —Gertrude Stein #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
2 years
Tomorrow, Jan 28, 10-11am EST, Free: A sixty-minute conversation, Laurie Anderson shares personal insights and stories about her experience with meditation. Zoom: Youtube:
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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie appears on today's episode of the @skepticspath podcast. They cover her personal path with Buddhism, approaching art with a beginner’s mind, staying present with suffering without letting it overwhelm you, and making our lives meaningful.
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Laurie Anderson
4 years
Laurie is performing Duets on Ice live from the @hirshhorn on Saturday at 4pm EDT. sign up to stream it live (it’s free!)
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Laurie appeared on @BBC6Music yesterday to chat with @matteveritt about the pivotal musical moments that have shaped her life and career
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Laurie Anderson
7 years
Laurie's book "All the Things I Lost in the Flood" will be available in February at booksellers everywhere via @Rizzoli_Books :
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Laurie Anderson
5 years
"The way we’re using this technology allows you to be free and that’s the biggest thing about VR that I love," Laurie tells @Forbes of her new VR piece with Hsin-Chien Huang, To the Moon, ahead of upcoming screenings at @Cannes & @MIFestival .
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Laurie Anderson
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But we recorded much of it almost like a folk record, trying to faithfully capture the actual sounds of voices and instruments. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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3 years
It Tango. That’s the way it goes. Isn’t it just like a woman? Still thinking of Dylan #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
6 years
Had a blast reading from @PhilipGlass & @Bob___Wilson 's 'The CIVIL warS' with @NicoMuhly at @CarnegieHall . —LA
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Tomorrow on NTS Radio, a whole day curated by Laurie. Starts at 12:00 BST / 7:00 ET LISTEN - DONATE: All shows will be available for replay at 6pm UK (1PM ET) at this page:
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Laurie Anderson
2 years
"Her works are as perfect as those of Rembrandt, but the blood of anarchy flows through her veins. She, more than anyone in my lifetime, has been giving me permission to misbehave in my pursuit of a life creating things." — @Nick_Offerman on Laurie
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Laurie Anderson
2 years
If you missed this conversation between Laurie and Paul D. Miller, hosted by The Brooklyn Rail a few months back, it's available as a written transcript.
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Laurie Anderson
4 years
Laurie is premiering a new radio program on @WESUmiddletown next Friday. The first guest will be writer Jonathan Cott. It airs next Friday, June 5th at 4am + 4pm. Also streaming on WESU’s website (and in their archives). @WesCFA
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Thank you to everyone who tuned in for Norton Lecture 4: The Road last week. Good news for anyone who missed it or was experiencing tech difficulties, a replay will be streaming again starting on Nov. 3rd for a period of 24 hours on Youtube.
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Laurie Anderson
4 years
Excited to announce that I will be joining  @philipglass @tenzinchoegyal @rubinkodheli and many more for this year’s annual Tibet House US Benefit Concert being held virtually on February 17, 2021! Info at
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Laurie Anderson
4 years
Tomorrow at 7pm EST I’m streaming a conversation on Youtube Live / FB Live to close out Party in the Bardo. Free, RSVP here:
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Laurie Anderson
4 years
Laurie was on @BBCRadio4 's #AGoodRead to share a favorite book, Hunter S. Thompson's 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,' with host @HarriettSG and fellow guest @StuartMaconie . You can hear the conversation via @BBCSounds at and on the air again Friday night.
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Laurie Anderson
2 years
Laurie Anderson–John Zorn Duo will perform at A Concert for Ukraine at @TheNewSchool December 9, free with suggested donation to @razomforukraine :
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Thursday!
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Legendary avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson ( @onlyanexpert ) brings ‘Big Science’ to the people of New York. Tune-in to her performance with composers and musicians Peter Gordon ( @pglolo ) and @DavidVanTieghem at 3PM ET on IG Live. #NYPopsUp
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Laurie Anderson
4 years
Metrograph ( @MetrographNYC ) is presenting a stream of Home of the Brave tomorrow night. Live stream at 8PM EDT and available on-demand for two days afterward. (only available in USA)
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Norton Lecture #2 : The Forest will be streaming live this Wednesday the 24th at 5pm ET. Registration is required and FREE.
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Example #22 I love slow sunshine. Do I know you? #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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And the cars and the long lines at the gas pumps They're in their plaid pajamas You can see them through the windows #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
3 years
Alongside the techno was the apocalyptic. The absurd. The everyday. #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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Laurie Anderson
7 years
Los Angeles—Laurie will celebrate the publication of her new book, "All the Things I Lost in the Flood," with the West Coast debut of a new show at @TheWallisBH on April 20:
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3 years
Wow – the postal system is practically obsolete. What about an orchestral arrangement of this? #TimsTwitterListeningParty
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3 years
Norton Lecture #3 : The Rocks will be available for 24 hours of streaming starting this evening! April 28 5pm EDT - April 29 5pm EDT
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8 years
Laurie's film #HeartOfADog gets @Criterion limited engagement on @iTunesMovies , now to 3/29:
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3 years
Reminder - Norton Lecture 4: The Road will be streaming live on Zoom tomorrow at 5pm EDT. Q&A afterward will be moderated by Adam Curtis. Registration is free at the link
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Laurie Anderson
7 years
Thank you for all of the lovely birthday wishes for Laurie. We will let her know!
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Laurie Anderson
4 years
Party in the Bardo episode 2 is now available for streaming via  @WESUmiddletown ’s archive. The guest for this one is composer/sound artist Bruce Odland and the theme is Slowness.
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