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Laurie Anderson’s most popular albums were released during the 80’s, including “Mister Heartbreak” (1984), the soundtrack of the concert film directed by herself “Home of the Brave” (1986), and “Strange Angels” (1989). She has ... composed the soundtracks for the Spalding Gray films “Swimming to Cambodia” and “Monster in a Box” and did some voice-acting for the animated film “The Rugrats Movie” and in 1994 she released a CD-ROM entitled “Puppet Motel”.
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The tape-bow violin is an instrument created by Laurie Anderson in 1977. It uses recorded magnetic tape in place of the traditional hair in the bow, and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. Anderson has updated and modified this device over the years. She can be seen using a later generation of this device in her film, Home of the Brave, during the "Late Show" segment in which she manipulates a sentence recorded by William S. Burroughs. This version of the violin discarded magnetic tape, and actually used MIDI-based audio samples, triggered by contact with the bow.
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In 1986, Warner Brothers released a live concert album of Anderson's, which contained material from her Home Of The Brave theatrical show. One of the more memorable moments in the accompanying video of the album is a precious moment where Laurie Anderson took a piece of magnetic tape, drew it upon a violin bow, and then played the bow on an electronic violin. The message on the magnetic tape was her voice saying "Language is a virus" and her playing the tape backwards and forwards in various different ways sends chills down the spine.
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