Who is Laurie Anderson?
A poet, writer, visual artist, and social commentator, she is perhaps best known as a recording artist, one whose technical wizardry and live shows have earned her a reputation as one of the most eccentric performers in the business. She’s a lot of things. In general she’s known as a “performance artist.” A performance artist is an artist who works in the medium of live performance. Laurie’s performances use a bewildering variety of media, including film, electronic and acoustic music, slides, costumes, and other weird effects that don’t even have names. Laurie is also a recording artist with Warner Bros. Records. She has made several albums, and all of them are more or less “avant-garde.” She began to actually sing recently, starting with the Album “Strange Angels.” Otherwise the vocals were primarily spoken. Some common themes in her works are airplanes, dogs, family, the United States, dreams, and language. Warner bros has a bio of her which can be seen at http://www.jimdavies.org/l
