Laurie Anderson
Matt Everitt talks to American avant-garde artist, composer, musician and film director Laurie Anderson about the pivotal moments and songs that have shaped her life and career.
Laurie Anderson, the prolific American performance artist, composer, musician and writer chats in-depth to Matt Everitt about the pivotal musical moments that have shaped her life and career. As an electronic music pioneer Laurie has invented several devices from voice filters to the 'talking stick' which she has used in her many recordings and performance art shows.
Laurie began studying classical violin at the age of five and later performed with the Chicago Youth Symphony. She left her native Chicago and in 1972 obtained a masters degree in sculpture from Columbia University in New York City.
One of Laurie鈥檚 early performance art pieces was 'Automotive' for which she orchestrated car horns and in 'Duets on Ice', she wore ice skates frozen in blocks of ice, playing a duet with herself on an altered violin, replacing the bow hair with pre-recorded audiotape and the strings with a tape head. The piece ended as soon as the ice melted. Laurie came to rely on a driving rock beat as a backdrop to many of her word-oriented pieces and she became widely known outside the art world in 1981 with the eight-minute long single "O Superman", which reached number two in the UK singles chart. The piece was part of a larger multimedia stage work 'United States I-IV' and was included on the album 'Big Science' in 1982.
Laurie has contributed music to films by Wim Wenders and Jonathan Demme, curated the Meltdown Festival at London's Royal Festival Hall in 1997,and became NASA's first artist-in-residence in 2002. Laurie collaborated with the Kronos Quartet on 鈥楲andfall鈥�, inspired by Hurricane Sandy, which won a Grammy Award in 2018.
Beginning in the early 90s, Laurie was in a relationship with musician Lou Reed; they were married from 2008 until his death in 2013.
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Laurie Anderson
It Tango
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Laurie Anderson
It Tango
- Big Science.
- Nonesuch.
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Chubby Checker
Pony Time
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Jean Knight
Mr Big Stuff
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Brian Wilson & Laurie Anderson
They're Marching Along (demo)
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Laurie Anderson
Time To Go
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Laurie Anderson
Is Anybody 91热爆
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Laurie Anderson
It's Not The Bullet That Kills You (It's The Hole)
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Philip Glass
Music In Twelve Parts, Part 1
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Laurie Anderson
O Superman
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Brian Eno
Set Me Free
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Lou Reed
Men of Good Fortune
- Perfect Day.
- RCA Records Label / sme.
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Lou Reed
Men of Good Fortune
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Arvo P盲rt
P盲rt: Fratres (Version for Eight Cellos)
- Arvo P盲rt: Fratres.
- Telarc.
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Mogwai
Ritchie Sacramento
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Florence + The Machine
You've Got The Love
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- MOSHI MOSHI.
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Arvo P盲rt
Frantres for Eight Cellos
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