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An Experimentally Conceptualized,
Multi-Sensory, "OMNIMedia" Symphony,
and (Live) Performance-Art Event
including an Interactive Sound/Light Installation
INFORMATION ABOUT: The Performance Concepts, the underlying Creative Process
(including Story writing, Music composing, Programming, etc.)
Some of the Influences, the Research being done,
ongoing progress being made on the Project
and efforts to find support for the Development Costs
through Fundraising, Grants, Fellowships and Private Donations.
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan

You know what I really like about cyberspace? The rumors. Such as the recent so-called fact that the Vatican had been bought out by Microsoft.... One world, one operating system! ...from the The Nerve Bible performance, 1996
- Laurie Anderson
the First International "Performance Art" Superstar

What Laurie Anderson does is very hard to describe. Combining audio special effects, acting and song writing with stand-up comedy style information delivered with a trippy multimedia Pink Floyd concert flavor, her "act" is ART with an emphasis on entertainment.

During her multimedia tour of the 90s, "The Nerve Bible," (a metaphor for the body), Laurie treated audiences around the nation to a one-woman opera scored with 11 computer languages, 35-plus tons of computer equipment, three 12-foot wide screens madly free-associating dreamy images, an electronic bodysuit that made percussive noises and her trademark neon violin. Laurie Anderson has always been out there, doing what she does best: using the tools available to tell stories straight from the human soul. She's been called a lot of things: the high priestess of quirky performance art, America's most popular avant-garde performance artist, a clever, pertinent artist, not a radical visionary, the technological story-teller. But she keeps on experimenting, in the great American fashion, keeps on reinventing herself, seeking to find the forum and the arena for her messages. As technology seems to be catching up, Anderson seems to have shifted gears slightly: the themes of her latest works are more personal than ever. From reflections on her near death experience in Tibet, to the deaths of her grandmother and her father, in "The Nerve Bible" tour she mused on the importance of the human voice keeping us all connected. She is still concerned with geo-political issues -- plagues from which there is no sanctuary, devastating floods, the firefly lights over Baghdad. It seems that the story of humanity, the story of human existence (which is so tenuous, she seems to be asserting) is counterpointed with the comic relief of technology (albeit an uneasy relief). With all her multimedia experience, she may just be one of the most essential souls of the new machine we have.

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MUSICA FACTA
Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit announces important appearance by Thom Yorke of Radiohead

Located in the Bay Area, the Bridge School is an educational facility for children with severe speech and physical impediments. Neil Young and his wife Pegi have been intimately affiliated with the school since its inception in 1986.

MTV.com informs us that Neil Young's 16th annual Bridge School benefit concerts will include performances by Neil himself, the Foo Fighters, folk-pop legend James Taylor, Grateful Dead remnants the Other Ones, pop-sensation pianist Vanessa Carlton, Hawaiian surfer-songwriter Jack Johnson, Jack Black's novelty act Tenacious D and a solo appearance by Thom Yorke of Radiohead. Yorke's solo appearance (and the expectation that he will showcase new Radiohead material) continues a tradition of high-profile experimentation at the Bridge School shows. In previous years, Green Day surprised fans with an acoustic set and Smashing Pumpkins appeared with Marilyn Manson. A CD of performances from the first 10 years of Bridge School shows, "Bridge School Concerts Vol. 1" was released in 1997.



In the forward to Electronic Music Interactive (other wise known as EMI), "Content Expert" Jeffery Stolet writes:

Electronic music can teach a musician many things. Bringing electronic music to life is a wondrously multi-faceted experience. To create sounds, the musician becomes the instrument builder. When selecting notes and rhythms, the musician becomes the composer. As the notes and rhythms are shaped, the musician becomes the performer. And finally, working to balance and coordinate the myriad and complex parts of the musical work, the musician becomes the conductor.

For these and many other reasons the study of electronic music offers an abundance of unique rewards. Perhaps no other pursuit of music is so intensely gratifying; and because of its amazing, seemingly infinite qualities, electronic music is a discipline that has riches to share with everyone, student, musician, and casual listener alike.


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