Laurie Anderson
El Hotsaren Espazioa. Begiradaren Denbora - Espacio Del Sonido. El Tiempo de la Mirada
*2024 Stock * English/Spanish Hardcover book, 128 pages with audio CD catalogue, documenting a sound art exhibition held at Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia - San Sebastiàn (Spain) in 1999.
Songs From The Bardo
Songs from the Bardo begins with a bell ringing out once, twice, three times, as a ritualistic chant emerges from the dense silence. The collaborative composition by avant-garde icon Laurie Anderson, Tibetan multi-instrumentalist Tenzin Choegyal, and composer and activist Jesse Paris Smith is a guided journey through the visionary text of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, unfolding in an 80-minute ebb and flow of sound and words. Songs from the Bardo is a transporting experience, meant to draw the l…
The Guests Go in To Supper (Book)
Rare 1st edition from 1986. Nearly 400 pages, large size, paperbound, smythe-sewn. Texts, scores and ideas of 7 American composers using language in composition: John Cage (Mushrooms et Variationes), Robert Ashley (Improvement), Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Charles Amirkhanian, Michael Peppe, and Kenneth Atchley.
Published by Burning Books, 1986. Edited by Melody Sumner Carnahan, Kathleen Burch and Michael Sumner. Introductions by Charles Shere and Frances Butler.
Landfall
Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet's Landfall, inspired by her experience of Hurricane Sandy, is the first collaboration between the iconic storyteller/musician and the groundbreaking string quartet, who perform together on the recording. Landfall juxtaposes lush electronics and traditional strings by Kronos with Anderson\'s powerful descriptions of loss, from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars. The Washington Post calls it "riveting, gorgeous."
The Record of the Time
few copies back in stock, long out of print: This is an amazing catalogue with audio CD focused on sound art / audio installations by Laurie Anderson, issued in an edition of 500 copies for the Milan PAC museum back in 2004 and long deleted. The soundworks presented in this amazing catalogue give the readers a chance to explore the world of the artist themselves: The Handphone Table, for example, invites visitors to perceive sounds through their own arm bones. Another audio-visual experience can…
Nothing In My Pockets: Secret Diary
Nothing In My Pockets was originally a sound diary, conceived for the Atelier de Création Radiophonique de France Culture, that was kept between July 4th and October 4th, 2003. In that new and innovative experimentation, Laurie Anderson unfolded her daily life as an artist, microwaved it and presented herself as more than a diarist: she became the electronic sound architect of her own existence. The sound diary that Laurie Anderson presents here also offers unpublished visual documents through t…