Laurie Anderson: Tiny Desk ( Home) Concert
The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It s the same spirit strippeddown sets, an intimate setting just a different space. Bob Boilen, May 20, 2021 Laurie Anderson is a revolutionary artist who has mixed storytelling, music and technology for the past four decades plus. This Tiny Desk (home) concert celebrates the truly breathtaking breakthrough album she put out in 1982, Big Science. On that record, she used a few different voice processors; one of them was a Vocoder. By singing into a microphone attached to a keyboard, you can hear how it effectively adds harmony to her voice on Let Laurie Anderson also used that effect, creating what I think of as the voice of authority in her storytelling, on O Superman, a song unlike anything music I d heard when it came out in 1981. She made use of a vocal loop, some
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