Laurie Anderson
Notebook
New York City, USA: Collation Center, 1977
47 pp., 14 x 18 cm., softcover
Edition of 1000
A small, oblong Artist’s Book (Anderson's second) documents compositions for electronic violin performed in various ourdoor city spaces. The contents include Film/song in 24/24 time, Duets on ice, Two songs for violin and projector, Duet for door jamb and violin, etc.
“Duets On Ice was performed at five locations in New York City in 1974 and three places in Genoa, Italy, in 1975. The concerts were performed on a violin with a built-in speaker...a self-playing violin. Half the music was on tape, coming out of the violin. The other half was played, simultaneously, live. The timing depended on the a pair of ice-skates, their blades frozen in blocks of ice. When the ice melted, the concert was over.”
- Laurie Anderson, Notebook
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