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Laura Phillips “Laurie” Anderson (5 de Juny del 1947) és una artista de performance i músic americana que toca el violí, el teclat i canta en una varietat de música experimental. Va començar com a escultora. Va fer la seva primera performance al final dels 1960. Durant els 70, l’artista va realitzar diferents peces d’art i activitats performatives. Es va fer popular fora del món de l’art el 1981 quan el single “O Superman” va arribar a estar en el segon lloc de les llistes pop britàniques.
Anderson també va inventar diferents aparells utilitzats posteriorment en les seves performances. El 1977 va crear un violí reemplaçant amb cinta magnètica la cinta de cua de cavall que normalment s’utilitza per l’arc. Al final dels 90 va inventar “talking stick”, un controlador de MIDI que pot reproduir diferents sons.
A l’Abril del 2008, Anderson es va casar amb Lou Reed en una cerimònia privada a Boulder, Colorado. -Wikipedia
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Laura Phillips “Laurie” Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American experimental performance artist and musicianO Superman” reached number two on the UK pop charts. 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 ”
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, Anderson married longtime companion Lou Reed in a private ceremony in Boulder, Colorado. -Wikipedia.
