Laurie Anderson

Musician, composer, and performance artist Laurie Anderson is one of the most prominent avant-garde figures of her era. While her 1982 debut album, Big Science, featuring the hit "O Superman," gave her mainstream appeal, Anderson remained firmly grounded within the realm of performance art, with ambitious multimedia projects encompassing music, film, visual projections, dance, and spoken and written language, the cornerstone of all of her work. Her wildly diverse catalog offers combinations of spoken word, postmodern classical minimalism, vanguard rock, airy jazz, and ambient ...