Laurie Anderson

"The Akai S900 is my favourite toy at the moment. I really like it very much - that and the Mac, they're a good pair. I did the whole Swimming to Cambodia score, the Jonathan Demme film, with one drum hit for the entire percussion sampled into the Akai, and it sounds like 50 different things. It's a lovely drum with a lovely sound to it, so I goofed around with it a bit and that's all there is. I don't think you'd ever suspect that it's just that one hit."

At 1:41 you can see that Laurie has not one but 3 Eventide H3000 units! She really likes the delay and Pitch shifter effects.

"The PCM70 is also a favourite toy; it has so many lovely things to it. Its Rich Chamber setting is a real warm, beautiful sound. So I was able to do the whole movie score with just that setup and I was very happy with it." Another smile, another cigarette, another subject. Art. To call Laurie Anderson a musician is to do her an injustice. Her work to date has involved songwriting, choreography, film-making and performing, so "artist" is a more accurate term. And strangely, it's from interviewing those sculptors that this artist has drawn many of her ideas."

In this photo of Laurie Anderson in her studio from 1980 that accompanies this article from The New York Times, an Eventide H949 is visible in the background. A version with the item circled can be found in this October 12, 2021 Facebook post by Eventide.

In this photo of Laurie Anderson in her studio from 1980 that accompanies this article from The New York Times, an Eventide H910 is visible in the background. A version with the item circled can be found in this October 12, 2021 Facebook post by Eventide.