Saturday 4 August 2012

Laurie Anderson - Dirtday

Saw Laurie Anderson at the Royal Festival Hall last night - her new piece was called Dirtday


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPPqjiaW8uY


Lots of intriguing insights to the world today = brilliant story telling and performance art.






An exploration, via personal experiences and reflections, of such themes as mortality, love, evolution, but also the social consequences of the economic crisis in the United States and the country’s constant search for an enemy against which to assert its own still emerging identity. The reflections were interspersed with and accompanied by characteristic soundscape passages and violin solos and Anderson once again used a voice filter to magic up the male voice that she describes as her voice of authority or of conscience. 

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