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. ^[1] Laurie Halse Anderson (born 1961) writes for children and young adults. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Incorporated Village in 1892. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... Art rock is a term used to describe a subgenre of rock music with experimental or avant-garde influences that emphasizes novel sonic texture. ... For the popular-music magazine, see Musician (magazine). ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making music. ... For the Anne Rice novel, see Violin (novel). ... Piano, a well-known instance of keyboard instruments A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a musical keyboard. ... Percussion redirects here. ... For other uses, see Singer (disambiguation). ... In the music industry, a record label can be a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. ... Warner Bros. ... Nonesuch Records is currently allied with Warner Bros. ... Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, and today operates under Atlantic Records Group. ... is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1947 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Incorporated Village in 1892. ... This article is about Performance art. ... For experimental rock music, see experimental rock. ... Art rock is a term used to describe a subgenre of rock music with experimental or avant-garde influences that emphasizes novel sonic texture. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... AUGUST 25 1981 US Marine Sean Vance is Born on the 25th of August {ear nav|1981}} Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... O Superman (For Massenet) is a 1981 song by experimental performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. ... Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, who also directed the movie. ...

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 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. ^[2] Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...

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Career

Early life

Anderson was born in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, where she graduated from Glenbard West High School. She attended Mills College in California, and eventually graduated from Barnard College magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, studying art history. In 1972, she obtained an MFA in sculpture from Columbia University. Her first performance art piece -- a symphony played on automobile horns -- was performed in 1969. In the early 1970s, she worked as an art instructor, as an art critic for magazines such as Artforum, ^[3] and illustrated children's books. ^[4] Glenbard West High School, or GWHS (also GBW), and locally referred to as West, is a public four-year high school located at the corner of Ellyn Avenue and Crescent Boulevard in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. ... Founded in 1852 and established in Oakland, California, in 1871, Mills College is an independent liberal arts womans college, with graduate programs for women and men. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Barnard College, founded in 1889, is one of the four undergraduate divisions of Columbia University. ... Latin honors are Latin phrases used to indicate the level of academic distinction with which an academic degree was earned. ... The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an honor society which considers its mission to be fostering and recognizing excellence in undergraduate liberal arts and sciences. ... This article is about the academic discipline of art history. ... Alma Mater Columbia University is a private university in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. ... Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. ...

1970s

She performed in New York through the 1970s. One of her most-cited performances, Duets on Ice, which she conducted in New York and other cities around the world, involved her playing violin along with a recording while wearing ice skates with the blades frozen into a block of ice; the performance ended only when the ice had melted away. Two early pieces, "New York Social Life" and "Time to Go," were included in the 1977 compilation New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media, along with works by Pauline Oliveros and others. This article is about the state. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... Pauline Oliveros (born 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. ...

Many of Anderson's earliest recordings remain unreleased, or were only issued in limited quantities, such as her first single, "It's Not the Bullet That Kills You (It's the Hole)". That song, along with "New York Social Life" and about a dozen others, were originally recorded for use in an art installation that consisted of a jukebox that played the different Anderson compositions. Among the musicians on these early recordings are Peter Gordon saxophone, Scott Johnson guitar, Ken Deifik harmonica and Joe Kos drums. Photographs and descriptions of many of these early performances were included in Anderson's retrospective book, Stories from the Nerve Bible. ^[5] A Zodiac jukebox A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. ... Peter Gordon can refer to several people: Peter Gordon, a psychology professor and researcher at Columbia University Peter Gordon, a celebrity chef from New Zealand Peter Gordon, a composer based in New York City Peter Gordon, a silver medalist in the 1932 Olympics Peter Gordon, a politician from New Zealand... Scott Johnson is an author, software developer and entrepreneur most notable for having created and founded Feedster. ...

During the late 1970s, Anderson made a number of additional recordings which were released either privately or included on compilations of avant garde music, most notably releases by the Giorno Poetry Systems label run by New York poet John Giorno, an early intimate of Andy Warhol. ^[6] In 1978, Anderson performed at The Nova Convention, a major conference involving many counter-culture figures and rising avant garde musical stars, including William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Malcolm Goldstein, John Cage and Allen Ginsberg. ^[7] Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Andrew Warhola (August 6, 1928 — February 22, 1987), better known as Andy Warhol, was an American artist who was a central figure in the movement known as Pop art. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914) — August 2, 1997; pronounced ), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs, was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-times Academy Award-nominated American composer. ... Frank Vincent Zappa[1] (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, musician, and film director. ... For the American baseball player, see Tim Leary (baseball player). ... Malcolm Goldstein (b. ... For the Mortal Kombat character, see Johnny Cage. ... Irwin Allen Ginsberg (IPA: ) (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. ...

1980s

Anderson became widely known outside the art world in 1981 with the single "O Superman," originally released in a limited quantity by B. George's One Ten Records. "O Superman" reached number two on the national pop charts in Britain after the sudden influx of orders from the UK (prompted by British DJ John Peel playing the record) led to Anderson's signing with the Warner Bros. label, which re-released the single. O Superman (For Massenet) is a 1981 song by experimental performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... For other persons named John Peel, see John Peel (disambiguation). ... “WB” redirects here. ...

"O Superman" was part of a larger stage work entitled United States and was included on her following album, Big Science. ^[8] Prior to the release of Big Science, Anderson returned to Giorno Poetry Systems to record the album, You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With; Anderson recorded one side of the 2-LP set, with William S. Burroughs and John Giorno recording a side each, and the fourth side featured a separate groove for each artist. This was followed by the back-to-back releases of her album Mister Heartbreak and United States Live, a five-LP (and, later, 4-CD) recording of her two-evening stage show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. ^[9] Big Science is the 1982 debut album by avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson. ... Youre the Guy I Want To Share My Money With is a double album released in 1981. ... Mister Heartbreak is the second album by avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson, released in 1984. ... United States Live was the third album release by avant-garde singer-songwriter Laurie Anderson. ...

She next starred in and directed the 1986 concert film, Home of the Brave, and also composed the soundtracks for the Spalding Gray films Swimming to Cambodia and Monster in a Box. During this time she also contributed music to Robert Wilson's "Alcestis" at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge MA. She also hosted the PBS series Alive from Off-Center during this time, for which she produced the short film, What You Mean We?. Release of Anderson's first post-Home of the Brave album, 1989's Strange Angels, was delayed for more than a year in order for Anderson to take singing lessons. This was due to the album being more musically inclined (in terms of singing) than her previous works. ^[10] Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, who also directed the movie. ... Gray in Grays Anatomy (1996). ... Spalding Grays Swimming to Cambodia is a 1987 Jonathan Demme performance film. ... Monster in a Box is a performance film written by and starring Spalding Gray and directed by Nick Broomfield. ... A princess in Greek mythology, Alcestis (might of the home) was known for her love for her husband. ... Note: Public Broadcasting Services is a broadcaster in Malta. ... Alive from Off Center was an American arts anthology series aired by PBS between 1984 and 1987. ... What You Mean We? is the title of a 1987 American musical short film starring singer Laurie Anderson, who also wrote and directed the piece. ... Strange Angels is the title of singer Laurie Andersons fifth album, released by Warner Brothers in 1989. ...

1990s

In 1991 Anderson appeared in "The Human Face" a feature arts documentary directed by artist filmmakers Nichola Bruce and Michael Coulson for BBC TV. Anderson was the presenter in this documentary on the history of the face in art and science. Her face was transformed using latex masks and digital special effects as she introduced ideas about the relationship between physiognomy and perception. Her varied career in the early 1990s included voice-acting in the animated film The Rugrats Movie. In 1994 she created a CD-ROM entitled Puppet Motel which was followed by Bright Red, co-produced by Brian Eno, and another spoken word album, The Ugly One with the Jewels. This was then followed by an appearance on the 1997 charity single, Perfect Day. ^[11] Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Human Face is a four-hour series and broadcast in the U.S. on the Learning Channel, The Human Face benefits from host, narrator, and cowriter John Cleeses signature blend of erudition, enthusiasm, and wit. ... The Rugrats Movie is a 1998 animated film, produced by Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies. ... The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ... Bright Red is the title of singer Laurie Andersons sixth album, released by Warner Bros. ... Brian Eno (pronounced IPA: ) born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. ... The Ugly One with the Jewels (full title: The Ugly One with the Jewels and Other Stories: A Reading from Stories From the Nerve Bible) is the title of a primarily spoken word album released by Laurie Anderson on Warner Bros. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... For other uses, see Perfect Day (disambiguation). ...

An interval of more than half a decade followed before her next album release. During this time, she wrote a supplemental article on the cultural character of New York City for the Encyclopædia Britannica.^[12] and created a number of multimedia presentations, most notably one inspired by Moby-Dick (Songs and Stories From Moby Dick, 1999-2000). ^[13] One of the central themes in Anderson's work is exploring the effects of technology on human relationships and communication. New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... The Encyclopædia Britannica is a general English-language encyclopaedia published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ... Moby-Dick book cover Moby-Dick - the official title of the first edition - is a novel by Herman Melville. ... By the mid 20th century humans had achieved a mastery of technology sufficient to leave the surface of the Earth for the first time and explore space. ...

2000s

Life on a String, appeared in 2001, by which time she had moved from the main Warner Bros. label to its subsidiary, Nonesuch Records. Life on a String was a mixture of new works (including one song recalling the recent death of Anderson's father) and works from the Moby Dick presentation. ^[14] In 2001 she recorded the audiobook version of Don DeLillo's novel The Body Artist.Anderson, who rarely revisits older work (though themes and lyrics occasionally reappear) went on tour performing a selection of her best-known musical pieces in 2001. One of these performances was recorded in New York City only a week after the September 11, 2001 attacks, and included a performance of "O Superman". This concert was released in early 2002 as the double CD, Live in New York. ^[15] Life on a String is an album by performance artist Laurie Anderson, released in 2001 on Nonesuch Records. ... Nonesuch Records is currently allied with Warner Bros. ... Don DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American author best known for his novels, which paint detailed portraits of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ... The Body Artist by DeLlilo. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...

In 2003, Anderson became NASA's first and so far only artist-in-residence, which inspired her most recent performance piece, The End of the Moon. ^[16]Anderson mounted a succession of themed shows and composed a piece for Expo 2005 in Japan. Anderson was part of the team that created the opening ceremony for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Later that year she collaborated with the choreographer Trisha Brown and filmmaker Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo on the acclaimed multimedia project O Zlozony/O Composite for the Paris Opera Ballet. The ballet premiered at the Opera Garnier in Paris in December 2004. Anderson has also collaborated with William S. Burroughs, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Ian Ritchie, Peter Gabriel, Perry Hoberman, David Sylvian, Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, Phillip Glass, Nona Hendryx, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Stewart, Peter Laurence Gordon, Hector Zazou, and Lou Reed. She also worked with comedian Andy Kaufman in the late 1970s. Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see NASA (disambiguation). ... A part of the Global Loop at Expo 2005 Expo with the Corporate Pavilions in the background Wonder Circus, the Electric Power Pavilion Expo 2005 was the Worlds Fair held in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, east of the city of Nagoya. ... (Redirected from 2004 Olympic Games) The Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, commonly known as the 2004 Summer Olympics were the 28th Summer Olympic Games. ... Trisha Brown (25 November 1936, Aberdeen, Washington, U.S.) is a postmodernist American choreographer and dancer. ... Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo is a filmmaker and writer. ... The Paris Opera Ballet is the ballet company of the Paris Opera. ... Exterior of the Palais Garnier. ... ← - 2004 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in December • 30 Artie Shaw • 29 Julius Axelrod • 28 Jacques Dupuis • 28 Jerry Orbach • 28 Susan Sontag • 26 Reggie White • 26 Sir Angus Ogilvy • 23 P. V. Narasimha Rao • 23 Doug Ault • 19 Renata Tebaldi • 16... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914) — August 2, 1997; pronounced ), more commonly known as William S. Burroughs, was an American novelist, essayist, social critic, painter and spoken word performer. ... Arto Lindsay (born May 28, 1953) is an American guitarist and singer. ... Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955 in Salem, Illinois and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner. ... Ian Ritchie is a composer, producer, arranger and saxophonist. ... Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950, in Cobham,[1] Surrey, England) is an English musician. ... Perry Hoberman is an installation artist who has worked extensively with machines and media. ... David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958, in Beckenham, Kent, UK) is an English singer, musician and composer who first gained attention as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the band Japan. ... Jean-Michel André Jarre (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer, performer and music producer. ... Brian Eno (pronounced IPA: ) born on 15 May 1948 in Woodbridge, Suffolk, England) is an English electronic musician, music theorist and record producer. ... Philip Glass looks upon sheet music in a portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz. ... Nona Hendryx (born October 9, 1944) is a vocalist known for her work as a solo artist as well as one-third of the trio LaBelle. ... Robert Bobby McFerrin Jr. ... David Allan Stewart, often known as Dave Stewart (born September 9, 1952 in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear), is an English musician and record producer best known for his work with Eurythmics. ... Peter Laurence Gordon (born June 20, 1951 in New York City) is an American experimental composer and musician, whose music draws from influences as diverse as jazz, opera, rock and world music. ... Hector Zazou is a prolific French composer and record producer who has worked with, produced, and collaborated with an international array of recording artists. ... Lou Reed, born Lewis Allen Reed[1] March 2, 1942, is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor, and performance artist. ...

Since the later part of the 1990s Anderson has become romantically linked with Lou Reed, and the two have collaborated on a number of recordings together. ^[17] Anderson contributed to "Call On Me" from Reed's collaborative project, The Raven, on the tracks "Rouge" and "Rock Minuet" from Reed's, Ecstasy, and "Hang On To Your Emotions" from Reed's Set the Twilight Reeling; Lou Reed contributes to the tracks "In Our Sleep" from Laurie Anderson's Bright Red and "One Beautiful Evening" from Anderson's Life on a String. They were married on April 12, 2008^[18]. For the album by The Stranglers, see The Raven (The Stranglers album). ... Ecstasy is the eighteenth album by rock and roll outcast/legend Lou Reed, released in 2000. ... 1996 release by rock and roll deity, Lou Reed. ... Bright Red is the title of singer Laurie Andersons sixth album, released by Warner Bros. ... Life on a String is an album by performance artist Laurie Anderson, released in 2001 on Nonesuch Records. ... is the 102nd day of the year (103rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2005, her exhibition The Waters Reglitterized opened at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York City. According to the press release by Sean Kelly,^[19] The Waters Reglitterized is a diary of dreams and their literal recreation as works of art. This work, created in the process of re-experiencing or re-working her dreams while awake, uses the language of dreams to investigate the dream itself. The resulting pieces include drawings, prints and high definition video. The installation ran until October 22, 2005. In 2006, she contributed a song to Plague Songs, a collection of songs related to the 10 Biblical plagues. Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 295th day of the year (296th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Plague Songs is an album of songs, by various artists, about the ten Plagues of Egypt described in the book of Exodus. ...

Laurie Anderson narrated Ric Burns's Andy Warhol: The Documentary Film, which was first televised in September 2006 as part of the PBS American Masters series. Anderson also performed in Came So Far For Beauty the Leonard Cohen tribute event held in The Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland on October 4 & October 5, 2006.Recently, through her web site, Laurie announced a re-release of her first album, Big Science, on Nonesuch Records, a DVD box set containing her short films and the concert movie Home of the Brave, a book of drawings titled Night Life, and a new album to be released in 2008, Homeland. American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on what it considers are the best artists, actors and writers of the United States. ... is the 277th day of the year (278th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see 5th October (Serbia). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Big Science is the 1982 debut album by avant-garde artist Laurie Anderson. ... Nonesuch Records is currently allied with Warner Bros. ... Home of the Brave is a 1986 American concert film featuring the music of Laurie Anderson, who also directed the movie. ...

Material from Homeland was performed at small 'work in progress' shows in New York throughout May 2007, most notably at the Highline Ballroom on May 17 and May 18 supported by a four piece band with spontaneous lighting and video visuals mixed live throughout the performances by Willie Williams and Mark Coniglio respectively. A European tour of the Homeland 'work in progress' took place during the late summer and fall of 2007, including performances on 28 September and 29 September 2007 at the Olympia Theatre, Dublin and on October 17,18 and 19 at the Melbourne International Arts Festival, and in Russia at the Moscow Dom Muzyky concert-hall on April 26 2008. May 2007 is the fifth month of that year. ... is the 137th day of the year (138th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 138th day of the year (139th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Willie Williams stage and light design, U2 Vertigo Tour, 2005. ... Mark Coniglio is the co-artistic director of Trokia Ranch. ... is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 272nd day of the year (273rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ...

Anderson was awarded the 2007 Gish Prize for her "outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind’s enjoyment and understanding of life."[2]

Discography

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Albums

• For Instants (1976)
• You're the Guy I Want To Share My Money With (1981) (with William S. Burroughs, John Giorno)
• Big Science (1982) #124
• Mister Heartbreak (1984) #60
• United States Live (box set) (1984) #192
• Home of the Brave (soundtrack album) (1986) #145
• Strange Angels (1989) #171, featuring Bobby McFerrin
• Bright Red (1994) #195
• The Ugly One with the Jewels (spoken word) (1995)
• Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (2000)
• Life on a String (2001)
• Live in New York (2002)
• Homeland (2008)

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Singles

• "O Superman" (1981) #2 UK
• "Big Science" (1981)
• "Sharkey's Day" (1984)
• "Language Is a Virus" (1986)
• "Strange Angels" (1989)
• "Babydoll" (1989) #7 US Modern Rock
• "Beautiful Red Dress" (1990)
• "In Our Sleep" (1994)
• "Big Science 2" (2007) (Currently only available on iTunes)

The single "Sharkey's Day" was for many years the theme song for Lifetime Television. Anderson also recorded a number of limited-release singles in the late 1970s (many issued from the Holly Soloman Gallery), songs from which were included on a number of compilations, including Giorno Poetry Systems' The Nova Convention and You're the Guy I Want to Spend My Money With. Over the years she has also performed on recordings by other musicians such as Peter Gabriel, Lou Reed and Jean Michel Jarre. She also contributed lyrics to the Philip Glass album Songs for Liquid Days, portrayed Mary Todd Lincoln (wife of Abraham Lincoln) for a recording of the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, and also contributed a spoken word piece to a tribute album in honor of John Cage. O Superman (For Massenet) is a 1981 song by experimental performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson. ... Lifetime Television is an American television network devoted to movies, sitcoms and dramas, all of which are either geared toward women or feature women in lead roles. ... Founded in 1965, Giorno Poetry Systems was an American artist collective, record label, and non-profit organisation founded by poet and performance artist John Giorno with the direct aim to connect poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, such as communication technology, audiovisual materials and... Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950, in Cobham,[1] Surrey, England) is an English musician. ... Lou Reed, born Lewis Allen Reed[1] March 2, 1942, is an American rock singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Jean-Michel André Jarre (born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France) is a French composer, performer and music producer. ... Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-times Academy Award-nominated American composer. ... Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the First Lady of the United States when her husband, Abraham Lincoln, served as the sixteenth President, from 1861 until 1865. ... For other uses, see Abraham Lincoln (disambiguation). ... the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down is an opera created in the early 1980s by director Robert Wilson to music by Philip Glass and others. ... Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-times Academy Award-nominated American composer. ... Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an internationally acclaimed American avant-garde stage director and playwright who has been called [America]s — or even the worlds — foremost vanguard theater artist [1]. Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter... For the Mortal Kombat character, see Johnny Cage. ...

Music videos

Formal music videos have been produced of:

• "O Superman"
• "Sharkey's Day"
• "Language is a Virus" (from Home of the Brave)
• "Beautiful Red Dress"

In addition, in lieu of making another music video for her Strange Angels album, Anderson taped a series of 1-2 minute "Personal Service Announcements" in which she spoke about issues such as the U.S. national debt and the arts scene. Some of the music used in these productions came from her soundtrack to Swimming to Cambodia. Government debt (public debt, national debt) is money owed by government, at any level (central government, federal government, national government, municipal government, local government, regional government). ...

Films

1. Hidden Inside Mountains (2006)
2. Life on a String (2002)
3. The Rugrats Movie (1998) (voice) .... Newborn Baby
4. Hotel Deutschland (1992)
5. "Alive from Off Center" (1984) TV series .... Host and her Clone (unknown episodes, 1987)
6. Home of the Brave (1986)
7. "Saturday Night Live" .... Musical Guest (1 episode, 1986)... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title)... aka SNL (USA: informal title)... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title)... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
8. Tony Danza/Laurie Anderson (1986) TV episode .... Musical Guest
9. System ohne Schatten (1983) .... Sängerin... aka Closed Circuit (USA)
10. Dearreader: How to Turn a Book Into a Movie (1974)... aka Dearreader (USA: short title)

Inventions

Anderson has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and performances.

Tape-bow violin

The tape-bow violin is an instrument created by Laurie Anderson in 1977. It uses recorded magnetic tape in place of the traditional hair in the bow, and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. Anderson has updated and modified this device over the years. She can be seen using a later generation of this device in her film, Home of the Brave, during the "Late Show" segment in which she manipulates a sentence recorded by William S. Burroughs. This version of the violin discarded magnetic tape, and actually used MIDI-based audio samples, triggered by contact with the bow.

Talking stick

The talking stick is a six-foot long, batonlike MIDI controller. It was used in the Moby Dick tour in 1999-2000. She described it in program notes: Musical Instrument Digital Interface, or MIDI, is a system designed to transmit information between electronic musical instruments. ...

The Talking Stick is a new instrument that I designed in collaboration with a team from Interval Research and Bob Bielecki. It is a wireless instrument that can access and replicate any sound. It works on the principle of granular synthesis. This is the technique of breaking sound into tiny segments, called grains, and then playing them back in different ways. The computer rearranges the sound fragments into continuous strings or random clusters which are played back in overlapping sequences to create new textures. The grains are very short, a few hundredths of a second. Granular synthesis can sound smooth or choppy depending on the size of the grain and the rate at which they’re played. The grains are like film frames. If you slow them down enough you begin to hear them separately. Interval Research Corporation was founded in 1992 by Paul Allen and David Liddle, computer industry veterans. ... Granular synthesis is a sound synthesis method that operates on the microsound time scale. ...

References

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Bibliography

Laurie Anderson, Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Twenty-Year Retrospective (HarperCollins, 1994, ISBN 0-06-055355-3).
Laurie Anderson, Dal Vivo (Fondazione Prada, 1999, ISBN 8887029105).
Laurie Anderson, Night Life (Edition 7L, 2007, ISBN 3865213391).

External links

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• Biography, interviews, essays, artwork images and video clips from PBS series Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century - Season 1 (2001)
• LaurieAnderson.com—official Web site
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• Some Notes on Seeing: The Waters Reglitterized By Laurie Anderson for exhibition 2005
• Laurie Anderson at the Internet Movie Database
• Eclectic Laurie Anderson visits Ames
• Artist's page in Artfacts.Net Laurie Anderson in the contemporary art world.
• Anderson in August: Shedding A Little Light On The Melancholy An academic digital presentation examining Laurie Anderson's 1974 Light in August.
• An interview, Mutant Renegade Zine #7, June 1996
• Ken Deifik

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Listening

• American Music Center: Laurie Anderson