The Handphone Table: (Remembering Sound).
 

Laurie Anderson

Installation, Modern Art Galerie, Wien, 1979.

Powerful drivers which compress and amplify sound are embedded in the table.

The listener can only hear the taped sound source by placing elbows in the depressions on the tables surface and covering the ears.

Sound is conducted from tape through driver, screw, elbow, skull. The cranial cavities effectually become speakers.






Audio Scene `79.