Editing Laurie Anderson (section)

=== Talking stick ===
The talking stick is a six-foot-long baton-like [[MIDI]] controller. It was used in the ''Moby-Dick'' tour in 1999–2000. She described it in program notes as follows:<ref name=AADL>{{ cite web |url=https://aadl.org/ums/programs_19990930b |title=University Musical Society: 1999 Fall Season (concert program, September 30{{snd}} October 8, 1999)|publisher=University Musical Society, [[University of Michigan Ann Arbor]] |date=September 1999}}</ref>

{{blockquote|The Talking Stick is a new instrument that I designed in collaboration with a team from [[Interval Research]] and [[Bob Bielecki]]. It is a wireless instrument that can access and replicate any sound. It works on the principle of [[granular synthesis]]. This is the technique of breaking sound into tiny segments, called grains, and then playing them back in different ways. The computer rearranges the sound fragments into continuous strings or random clusters that are played back in overlapping sequences to create new textures. The grains are very short, a few hundredths of a second. Granular synthesis can sound smooth or choppy depending on the size of the grain and the rate at which they're played. The grains are like film frames. If you slow them down enough, you begin to hear them separately.}}