Listen to an interview from 1984 with an oh-so-young-and-soft-voiced Laurie Anderson, preserved in Alfred Sneider's archive, as part of his radio series called 'College of Musical Knowledge' on WRUV-FM Radio Burlington, Vermont.
Here is the interview in one long part in its original place:
- Ira Melnick's interview with Laurie Anderson on WRUV-FM, May 1984 (audio length: 63 mins 23 secs, file size: 59 MB)
... or chopped, enhanced and edited into more 'edible' parts here, on Files on a String:
- WRUV interview (1984) - part one (audio length: 5 mins 34 secs, file size: 7.65 MB)
- the car horn concert in Vermont, 1972 / about 'Juanita'
- WRUV interview (1984) - part two (audio length: 4 mins 12 secs, file size: 5.79 MB)
- being a storyteller / conversational talking as real improvisation / mistakes and their use, e. g. in 'Langue d'amour'
- WRUV interview (1984) - part three (audio length: 5 mins 40 secs, file size: 7.78 MB)
- being a feminist performer (or not) / separating art and politics
- WRUV interview (1984) - part four (audio length: 4 mins 7 secs, file size: 5.67 MB)
- the role of the audience
- WRUV interview (1984) - part five (audio length: 4 mins 18 secs / file size: 5.91 MB)
- using all kinds of sounds in music / tape-bow violin
- WRUV interview (1984) - part six (audio length: 4 mins 36 secs, file size: 6.33 MB)
- the digital equivalent of the tape-bow violin (United States Tour!) / the colour white
- WRUV interview (1984) - part seven (audio length: 5 mins 53 secs, file size: 8.9 MB)
- the Handphone Table / an epic album in progress: 'United States Live' (!!)