Laurie Anderson performing in Times Square tonight for dogs; 'Heart of a Dog' excerpt is this month's 'Midnight Moment' clip
As you may have already seen, a three-minute excerpt of Laurie Anderson‘s Heart of a Dog film is being shown on Times Square billboards every night in January from 11:57 PM to midnight. It’s for this month’s installment of Midnight Moment, the same series that projected the Bjork video back in March.
Tonight (1/4) is even more special though, as Laurie will be performing from 11:30 to 11:57 PM… for dogs. The NY Times reports:
Dogs and their owners are invited to sit on the red steps of Duffy Square while she performs music that, to passers-by in Times Square, may not sound like much because of the low frequency. Humans can tune in with wireless headphones — there are 350 total — that will be given out beforehand.
Laurie previously did this outside the Sydney Opera House, and you can watch a video of that below. According to The Times, “At the end, they began to bark — even the droolers in the front row. ‘It was a beautiful sound,’ [Laurie] said. ‘They barked for five minutes. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.'”
Heart of a Dog, which ended up on a few Best Films of 2015 lists and has been nominated for an Oscar, is coming to HBO soon, and the soundtrack is out now on Nonesuch. Watch the trailer below.
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