Husband-wife experimental music duo Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson saw your playing noise music with children, Thurston Moore, and have raised you Music for Dogs, a “high-frequency concert” for the Reed/Anderson-curated Vivid Live festival next month at Australia’s famed Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Morning Herald reports (via Flavorwire) that while owners and their four-legged friends will both be in attendance, the canine half of the group will be the most entertained: “You can just about hear [the music] sometimes,” said Anderson. “And you look at it on the meters and you see what it’s doing. And your dog’s ears will be twitching.”
The piece was inspired by their rat terrier, Lollabelle. So what kind of tunes does Lolla want? “She likes things with a lot of smoothness but with beats in them. Things with voices and lots of complicated high-end stuff. Chk-chk-chk-chk-chk … that kind of stuff.”
Music for Dogs will play at the Opera House’s northern boardwalk on June 5 (let the dog blogosphere hype begin!). By the way, if animals get restless during the 20-minute set, Anderson approves their forming “a little mosh pit if they feel like it.”