Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Hold Concert for Dogs at Sydney Opera House

Laurie Anderson's "Music for Dogs" at Sydney, Australia's Vivid Life festival promises to be the world's first concert that can only be heard by dogs.

By Kathryn Hawkins. Posted on June 01 2010

Creative Commons image by Alicia Nijdam.

Former Velvet Underground frontman, Lou Reed, and his wife, performance artist Laurie Anderson, are curating a music and arts festival called Vivid Live at Australia’s Sydney Opera House this month—and one of their events promises to be a barking good time.

On June 5th at 10 AM, four-legged visitors will be welcomed to the Opera House Forecourt (along with their human companions) for the first event of its kind in the world: a concert only for dogs.

Laurie Anderson has created a performance piece consisting of tones so high that we humans won’t be able to hear them, but our canine friends are sure to enjoy the sound. “Our canine friends will be treated to a glorious cacophony of sound, while all we will hear is the lapping of the water on the harbor,” says the Vivid Live website.

Actually, we’ve got a feeling that the human audience members may well be treated to the sound of a few hundred dogs barking in unison—but maybe that’s just part of the music, too.

Live Down Under and want to see the show with your favorite pooch? Check out the details on the website.

Filed under: Animals and Pets, Arts and Culture, Weird,

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