Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles.
[audio:Laurie Anderson – O Superman (For Massenet).mp3]Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety of different performance-art activities.
She became widely known outside the art world in 1981 when her single “O Superman” reached number two on the UK pop charts. She also starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
Laurie Anderson on Delusion
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=KoBVBB2iFwg
“Conceived as a series of short mystery plays, Delusion jump-cuts between the everyday and the mythic. Combining violin, electronic puppetry, music and visuals, Delusion is full of nuns, elves, golems, rotting forests, ghost ships, archaeologists, dead relatives and unmanned tankers. It tells its story in the colourful and poetic language that has become Anderson’s trademark. Inspired by the breadth of Balzac, Ozu and Laurence Sterne, and employing a series of altered voices and imaginary guests, Anderson tells a complex story about longing, memory and identity. At the heart of Delusion is the pleasure of language and a terror that the world is made entirely of words.”
She has also invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she developed a talking stick, a six-foot-long batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds.
Laurie Anderson “Life on a String”
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=N0KvspW3LDo
A music short film created for Laurie Anderson’s 2001 CD “Life on a String” directed by Steven Lippman aka Flip.
On April 12, 2008 Laurie Anderson married longtime companion Lou Reed in a private ceremony in Boulder, Colorado.
Digital in Berlin highly recommended! We are giving away 2×1 tickets for Laurie Anderson. Just send a mail to win@digitalinberlin.de with “Laurie Anderson” as the subject.
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Laurie Anderson “Delusion” LIVE
17&18.05.2011 | 20:00 CET | presale tickets @ www.koka36.de
Volksbühne | Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz | 10178 Berlin/Mitte
http://www.volksbuehne-berlin.de | http://www.laurieanderson.com | http://www.myspace.com/officialaurieanderson
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