Mister Heartbreak, the Glossary

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1. 72 relations: Adrian Belew, AllMusic, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Anton Fier, Art pop, Art rock, Avant-garde, Bamboo, Batá drum, Bell, Big Science (Laurie Anderson album), Bill Laswell, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Bob Ludwig, Boy soprano, Conch (instrument), Daniel Ponce, David Van Tieghem, Distortion (music), Effects unit, Gayageum, Good Morning, Mr. Orwell, Gravity's Rainbow, Herman Melville, Hoedown, Home of the Brave (1986 film), Howie Weinberg, Jew's harp, Jimi Hendrix, King Crimson, Laurie Anderson, LinnDrum, Moby-Dick, Music video, Myspace, Naked Lunch, Naked Lunch (film), Nam June Paik, Nile Rodgers, Octave effect, Official Charts Company, Peter Gabriel, Phoebe Snow, Plywood, Purple Haze, Red Bull Music Academy, Robert Christgau, Rolling Stone, Roma Baran, ... Expand index (22 more) »

2. Laurie Anderson albums
3. William S. Burroughs

Adrian Belew

Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Anderson Ranch Arts Center

Anderson Ranch Arts Center is a non-profit arts organization founded in 1966 and located in Snowmass Village, Colorado.

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Anton Fier

John Anton Fier III (June 20, 1956 – September 14, 2022) was an American drummer, producer, composer, and bandleader.

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Art pop

Art pop (also typeset art-pop or artpop) is a loosely defined style of pop music influenced by art theories as well as ideas from other art mediums, such as fashion, fine art, cinema, and avant-garde literature.

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Art rock

Art rock is a subgenre of rock music that generally reflects a challenging or avant-garde approach to rock, or which makes use of modernist, experimental, or unconventional elements.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Bamboo

Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae.

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Batá drum

The Batá drum is a double-headed hourglass drum with one end larger than the other.

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Bell

A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument.

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Big Science (Laurie Anderson album)

Big Science is the debut studio album by American performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. Mister Heartbreak and Big Science (Laurie Anderson album) are Laurie Anderson albums.

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Bill Laswell

William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Bob Ludwig

Robert C. Ludwig (born c. 1945) is an American mastering engineer.

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Boy soprano

A male soprano (British and especially North American English) or boy treble (only British English) is a young male singer with a voice in the soprano range, a range that is often still called the treble voice range (in North America too) no matter how old.

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Conch (instrument)

Conch, or conque, also known as a "seashell horn" or "shell trumpet", is a wind instrument that is made from a conch, the shell of several different kinds of sea snails.

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Daniel Ponce

Daniel Ponce (July 21, 1953 – March 14, 2013) was a Cuban-American jazz percussionist.

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David Van Tieghem

David Van Tieghem (born April 21, 1955) is an American composer, percussionist and sound designer, best known for his philosophy of utilizing any available object as a percussion instrument and for his collaborations with the experimental artists Laurie Anderson, Brian Eno, Steve Reich, Robert Ashley and David Byrne.

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Distortion (music)

Distortion and overdrive are forms of audio signal processing used to alter the sound of amplified electric musical instruments, usually by increasing their gain, producing a "fuzzy", "growling", or "gritty" tone.

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Effects unit

An effects unit, effects processor, or effects pedal is an electronic device that alters the sound of a musical instrument or other audio source through audio signal processing.

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Gayageum

The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean musical instrument.

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Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

"Good Morning, Mr.

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Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon.

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Herman Melville

Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period.

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Hoedown

A hoedown is a type of American folk dance or square dance in duple meter, and also the musical form associated with it.

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Home of the Brave (1986 film)

Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film directed by, and featuring the music of, Laurie Anderson. Mister Heartbreak and Home of the Brave (1986 film) are William S. Burroughs.

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Howie Weinberg

Howie Weinberg is an American audio mastering engineer.

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Jew's harp

The Jew's harp, also known as jaw harp, juice harp, or mouth harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer.

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King Crimson

King Crimson were an English-based progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London.

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Laurie Anderson

Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.

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LinnDrum

The LinnDrum, also referred to as the LM-2, is a drum machine manufactured by Linn Electronics between 1982 and 1985.

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Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville.

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Music video

A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotional or musical artistic purposes.

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Myspace

Myspace (formerly stylized as MySpace; also myspace and sometimes my␣, with an elongated open box symbol) is a social networking service based in the United States.

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Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch (first published as The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs.

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Naked Lunch (film)

Naked Lunch is a 1991 surrealist science fiction drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. Mister Heartbreak and Naked Lunch (film) are William S. Burroughs.

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Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 – January 29, 2006) was a Korean artist.

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Nile Rodgers

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American musician, songwriter and record producer.

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Octave effect

Octave effect boxes are a type of special effects unit which mix the input signal with a synthesized signal whose musical tone is an octave lower or higher than the original.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter and human rights activist.

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Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; July 17, 1950 – April 26, 2011) was an American roots music singer-songwriter and guitarist, known for her hit 1974 and 1975 songs "Poetry Man" and "Harpo's Blues", and her credited guest vocals backing Paul Simon on "Gone at Last".

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Plywood

Plywood is a composite material manufactured from thin layers, or "plies", of wood veneer that are glued together with adjacent layers, having both glued with each other at right angle.

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Purple Haze

"Purple Haze" is a song written by Jimi Hendrix and released as the second single by the Jimi Hendrix Experience on March 17, 1967, in the United Kingdom.

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Red Bull Music Academy

The Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) is a world-traveling series of music workshops and festivals that was founded in 1998 by Red Bull GmbH.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American music journalist and essayist.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Roma Baran

Roma Baran (born 1946 or 1947) is a Canadian record producer who is best known for her work with Laurie Anderson, Rosalie Sorrels, Annabelle Chvostek, and Kate & Anna McGarrigle.

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RPM (magazine)

RPM (and later) was a Canadian music-industry publication that featured song and album charts for Canada.

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Sang Won Park

Sang Won Park (박상원; born 1950, in Seoul, South Korea) is a South Korean musician.

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Shekere

The shekere (from Yoruba Ṣẹ̀kẹ̀rẹ̀) is a Yoruba percussion instrument consisting of a dried gourd with beads or cowries woven into a net covering the gourd.

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Simmons (electronic drum company)

Simmons is an electronic drum brand, which originally was a pioneering British manufacturer of electronic drums.

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Slit drum

A slit drum or slit gong is a hollow percussion instrument.

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So (album)

So is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel, released on 19 May 1986 by Charisma Records and Virgin Records.

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Standing bell

A standing bell or resting bell is an inverted bell, supported from below with the rim uppermost.

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Steelpan

The steelpan (also known as a pan, steel drum, and sometimes, collectively with other musicians, as a steelband or steel orchestra) is a musical instrument originating in Trinidad and Tobago.

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Synclavier

The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont.

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The Tempest

The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that he wrote alone.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels.

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Tom drum

A tom drum (also known as a tom-tom) is a cylindrical drum with no snares, named from the Anglo-Indian and Sinhala language.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by sales and audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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United States Live

United States Live is the first live album and third overall album by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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Vocoder

A vocoder (a portmanteau of voice and encoder) is a category of speech coding that analyzes and synthesizes the human voice signal for audio data compression, multiplexing, voice encryption or voice transformation.

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Warner Records

Warner Records Inc. (formerly known as Warner Bros. Records Inc. until 2019) is an American record label.

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Whistle

A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air.

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William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Woodblock (instrument)

A woodblock (also spelled as two words, wood block) is a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood.

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See also

Laurie Anderson albums

• Big Science (Laurie Anderson album)
• Bright Red
• Home of the Brave (soundtrack)
• Homeland (Laurie Anderson album)
• Life on a String (album)
• Mister Heartbreak
• Strange Angels (Laurie Anderson album)
• Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology
• The Ugly One with the Jewels
• You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With

William S. Burroughs

• Antony Balch
• Beat (2000 film)
• Brion Gysin
• Burroughs (film)
• Chappaqua (film)
• Cut-up technique
• Decoder (film)
• Dreamachine
• Drugstore Cowboy
• Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (film)
• Home of the Brave (1986 film)
• Ian Sommerville (technician)
• James Grauerholz
• Joan Vollmer
• Kill Your Darlings (2013 film)
• Last Night on Earth (U2 song)
• Mister Heartbreak
• My Own Mag
• Naked Lens: Beat Cinema
• Naked Lunch (film)
• Seven Souls
• The Black Rider (album)
• Wax or the Discovery of Television Among the Bees
• William S. Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs Jr.
• William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
• William Seward Burroughs I
• Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Heartbreak

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