MAY 8, FRIDAY, 8:00 PM / BURNING LEAVES TOUR
Konzertsall UdK (Universitat der Kunst) / BERLIN, GERMANY
http://www.udk-berlin.de
Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5, 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) 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. 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 “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.
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.
On April 12, 2008 Laurie Anderson married longtime companion Lou Reed in a private ceremony in Boulder, Colorado.
Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson ‘ Mystic Child ‘ 2002
httpv://https://youtube.com/watch?v=mNFVQUFSKYk
http://www.laurieanderson.com | http://www.myspace.com/officialaurieanderson
