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Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson
Born in Illinois, Anderson is an avant-garde artist, composer, musician and movie director whose work spans from performance art, to pop music, to multimedia projects. She started performing in New York during the 1970s. One of her most-cited performances, “Duets on Ice”, involved her playing the 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. Among he most celebrated works are: United States 1-4, Mister Heartbreak, Empty Places, Stories from the Nerve Bible e Song and Stories from Moby Dick. In the latter, a majestic show inspired by Melville's masterpiece, she plays an instrument of her own invention, the “Talking stick”: a metal bar that, touched, produces different sounds. During the 1990s she produced an interactive 12-hours-long CD-Rom called Puppet Motel. She worked with many literary, musical and artistic personalities, among which William Burroughs, Wim Wenders, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel and Lou Reed—her husband from 2008 to his death. In 2003 she became the first official NASA artist. In 2015 she directed the documentary Heart of a Dog. In 2019, along with the Punch Brothers and the Kronos Quartet, she won a Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music / Small Ensemble Performance, with a piece inspired by Hurricane Sandy.
NEW YORK 2019
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