Laurie Anderson
When looking into the solo artist Anderson I found her use of music rather interesting and the minimalist side to her tracks. She doesn’t just present a conventional song with a catchy melody and the conventional band instruments. Instead she uses a device similar to a loop pedal within her songs to create repetition which is what caught my attention.
My Performance
In my performance I want to tackle the idea of auditions and the idea of “when is enough enough?” and “when is it time to stop?” after all the constant rejections. I want to embody the role of the actor attending auditions yet you can never actually get through the full audition piece as the rejections interject and you move on. The use of a loop pedal or this idea of repetition can be used for every negative rejection phrase being looped. So it may start with “Next” which then brings in “No thank you” and this noise of rejection would just build and build into this mass of noise of negativity. This would then drown out any sound I am making for the audition and then the question would be asked for “How much longer do I do this?”
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