Laurie Anderson was the guest on WNYC's New Sounds last night. She spoke with host John Schaefer about her new film, Heart of a Dog, and shared several excerpts from its soundtrack. The show also touches on her recent Park Avenue Armory piece Habeas Corpus. "Similar themes run through both works," says WNYC, "in that Anderson ponders how stories are spun, and how language is used, along with ideas about what time ('Living Life Backwards'), identity ('How to Feel Sad Without Being Sad'), and freedom might mean in a surveillance and algorithmic culture." Hear the conversation here.
Laurie Anderson was the guest on WNYC's New Sounds last night. She spoke with host John Schaefer about her new film, Heart of a Dog, and shared several excerpts from its soundtrack, which was released on Nonesuch Records last Friday. The show also touches on her piece Habeas Corpus, a collaboration with former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed el Gharani, which recently premiered at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. "Similar themes run through both works," says WNYC, "in that Anderson ponders how stories are spun, and how language is used, along with ideas about what time ('Living Life Backwards'), identity ('How to Feel Sad Without Being Sad'), and freedom might mean in a surveillance and algorithmic culture." Hear the complete episode below.
Heart of a Dog is currently showing at Film Forum in New York City, opening at theaters across the United States in the coming weeks, and will be shown on HBO in early 2016. For details, visit heartofadogfilm.com. To get the soundtrack, head to iTunes or the Nonesuch Store, where CD orders include a download of the complete album at checkout.
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