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MYSTERIOUS: Laurie anderson - What They Never Told You

AI slop, begone! The viral musical virtuosos bringing brains and brilliance back to social media

Whether making microtonal pop or playing Renaissance instruments with sheep bones, a crop of bold artists are making genuinely strange music go mainstream – but are they at the mercy of the algorithm?

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Top 5 Most Creepy TikTok Sounds to Use on Your Halloween Posts

Here are the Top 5 Creepy TikTok sounds to make your Halloween posts extra spooky!

International Business Times UK

William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea speaks to processing childhood trauma

In William Blake’s painting The Ghost of a Flea (1820) a huge muscled figure fills the frame. He steps forward, the left side of his body towards the viewer. In one outstretched hand he holds a bleeding bowl (used to catch the blood released during bloodletting) made from an acorn.…

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Inside Andy Kaufman: SNL’s strange genius with an unsettling dark side

IN FOCUS: The unconventional star of ‘Saturday Night Live’ and ‘Taxi’ is the subject of a brilliant new documentary film. Stevie Chick looks back at the life and work of one of comedy’s true originals

The Independent UK

Laurie Anderson says artificial intelligence spells ‘the end of the world’

The artist and musician said you ‘can impersonate anyone’ with the technology.

Evening Standard

Laurie Anderson: Ark: United States V review – a long and winding bid to make sense of America

Contemplating a world of catastrophe and collapse, the veteran artist’s new three-hour show, though much too long and diffuse, has moments of poignancy – and joy

The Guardian - UK

Laurie Anderson: Ark: United States V review – portrait of America is a multimedia mess

A mix of beat poetry, opera, communal screaming, TikTok and tai chi, Anderson’s state-of-the-nation work is occasionally poignant but mostly baffling

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Feel like a movie? The top 50 films of all time according to Marcio Kogan

Marcio Kogan's top 50 films of all time; the architect taps into his passion for the moving image and shares with us his recommendations

Wallpaper

The week in audio: Matt Chorley; Transmissions: The Definitive Story of Joy Division and New Order; In The Studio: Laurie Anderson – review

5 Live’s new politics show gets off to a solid start; the never-boring story of New Order is retold. Plus, Laurie Anderson on knob-twiddling

The Guardian - UK

Laurie Anderson: Amelia review – return flight with aviation pioneer is a long haul

The US musician’s reboot of a 2000 work about Amelia Earhart is frustratingly slow to take off

The Guardian - UK

‘Optimists have happier lives’: Laurie Anderson on Bowie, Lou Reed and ‘romantic, inspiring’ JFK

Releasing a new album inspired by Amelia Earhart, the US musician answers your questions about her letters to Kennedy, wrestling Andy Kaufman and performing for thousands of dogs at Sydney Opera House

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Laurie Anderson

Your chance to ask Anderson about taking avant garde music to the pop charts with O Superman, making an AI chatbot of her late husband Lou Reed or even having her own planet

The Guardian - UK

"There wasn't an option to go and hide in the shadows any more": How Peter Gabriel made So and became the world's biggest-selling cult artist

In 1986 Peter Gabriel released his fifth studio album So. It was a huge international hit. This is how it happened

Louder

Stephen Hawking Medal 2024 winners announced at star-studded Starmus VII festival

The four winners of the Stephen Hawking Medal 2024 were announced during a medal ceremony at Starmus VII science and music festival in Bratislava, Slovakia.

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Laurie Anderson on making an AI chatbot of Lou Reed: ‘I’m totally, 100%, sadly addicted’

Anderson’s experiments with language-based AI predated ChatGPT – with one machine modelled on her dead husband that her friends ‘just can’t stand’

AAP

Writers Festival leader quits over Palestine program

The deputy chair of the Melbourne Writers Festival has quit, making the festival the latest cultural event to face controversy over the conflict in Gaza.

MusicRadar

How Laurie Anderson made the experimental classic O Superman: "The lyrics are a one-sided conversation, like a prayer to God. I wanted it to be like a Greek chorus – not just one voice – so I used a vocoder"

As the unlikely 1981 hit goes viral on TikTok, we tell the story of Laurie Anderson's strangely compelling masterpiece

The Guardian - US

Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support

Essen’s Folkwang University took issue with the American artist’s support of a ‘letter against apartheid’ by Palestinian artists

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Mary Halvorson: Cloudward review – compositions fuse with improv to wondrous ends

(Nonesuch)The Brooklyn jazz guitarist’s seamless, beautifully interwoven tracks are full of welcome surprises

The Guardian - UK

Best podcasts of the week: The twisting tale of Dawn Hacheney, and the house fire that killed her

In this week’s newsletter: Mortal Sin investigates the death of a pastor’s wife that was more than it seemed. Plus: five of the best genre-defying podcasts

AAP

Global artists feature on 2024 Adelaide Festival bill

The first Adelaide Festival with new artistic director Ruth Mackenzie brings work from big name global artists to the city.

The Conversation

From Duchamp to AI: the transformation of authorship in art

The 19th century concept of authorship revolved around the romantic view of the artist as a lone genius. In this model, every stroke of the brush, every note played and every word written was the product of a singular creative mind, bearing the unique imprint of its creator.

The Guardian - UK

The Art of the Straight Line review – how tai chi brought out Lou Reed’s mild side

The singer-songwriter transformed his later life practising the martial art, as this compilation of writing, edited by his widow Laurie Anderson, shows

Daily Record

Scots baby with four rare heart defects saved by surgery weeks after birth

Laurie Anderson and fiancé Daniel Moir, from Aberdeen, were told their unborn child had a condition called Tetralogy of Fallot during their 20-week scan leaving them 'shocked'.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow doctors save life of tiny baby boy born with four heart defects

Laurie Anderson was shocked when she was told that her unborn son would need open heart surgery within his first year of life after he was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot.

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