"Voices On Tape" lyrics - LAURIE ANDERSON
Was ist das Prinzip?
What is the principle?
Das Prinzip ist folgenes:
The principle is as follows:
Klang besteht aus Wellen.
Sound is composed of waves.
Wenn die Wellen sich zu Formen beginnen, horen wir das als Klang.
When the wave form begins, we hear it as sound.
Sie sind nicht mehr horbar, sie bewegen sich langsamer.
But after the sound has disappeared, the waves continue to travel.
Dies ist ein normaler Raum.
This is a normal room.
Niemand hat ihn seit 1955 betreten.
No one has been in this room since 1955.
Aber er ist immor noch voller langsam sich bewegen der Wellen. Die Stimmen und Klange langst verflossener jahre darstellen.
However, it is still full of slowly traveling waves. The original sound and voices continue to move back and forth.
Mit starken Stereo-mikrofonen, war es uns moglich diese Klange aufzunehmen, und sie in horbare Satze urzuwandeln.
With sensitive stereo-microphones, we were able to record these waves, and then translate them back into their original form: words.
Ich bin hier. (I am here.)
Goethe ist ein Diplomat. (Goethe is a diplomat.)
So viele Licht hier. (So many lights here.)
United States Live (1984)
- Say Hello
- Walk The Dog
- Violin Solo
- Closed Circuits
- For A Large And Changing Room
- Pictures Of It
- Language Of The Future
- Cartoon Song
- Small Voice
- Three Walking Songs
- The Healing Horn
- New Jersey Turnpike
- So Happy Birthday
- English
- Dance Of Electricity
- Three Songs For Paper, Film And Video
- Sax Solo
- Sax Duet
- Born, Never Asked
- From The Air
- Beginning French
- O Superman
- Talkshow
- Frames For The Pictures
- Democratic Way
- Looking For You
- Walking & Falling
- Private Property
- Neon Duet
- Let X=X
- The Mailman's Nightmare
- Difficult Listening Hour
- Language Is A Virus
- Reverb
- If You Can't Talk About It, Point To It
- Violin Walk
- City Song
- Finnish Farmers
- Red Map
- Hey Ah
- Bagpipe Solo
- Steven Weed
- Time And A Half
- Voices On Tape
- Example #22
- Strike
- False Documents
- New York Social Life
- A Curious Phenomenon
- Yankee See
- I Dreamed I Had To Take A Test...
- Running Dogs
- Four, Three, Two, One
- The Big Top
- It Was Up In The Mountains
- Odd Objects
- Dr. Miller
- Big Science
- Big Science Reprise
- Cello Solo
- It Tango
- Blue Lagoon
- Langue D'Amour
- Stiff Neck
- Telephone Song
- Sweaters
- We've Got Four Big Clocks
- Song For Two Jims
- Over The River
- Mach 20
- Rising Sun
- The Visitors
- The Stranger
- Classified
- Going Somewhere?
- Fireworks
- Dog Show
- Lighting Out For The Territories