Laurie Anderson PSP Avant-Garde Poetess Laureate Award
Nov 17, 2024 17:19
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Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-garde artist, musician and filmmaker whose work spans performance art, pop music, and multimedia projects.
Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of performance art in New York City during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery.
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, which ultimately reached number two on the British charts.
"O Superman" was part of a larger stage work titled United States and was included on the album Big Science.
Laurie Anderson's first performance-art piece - a symphony played on automobile horns - was performed in 1969. In 1970, she drew the underground comix Baloney Moccasins, which was published by George DiCaprio. In the early 1970s, she worked as an art instructor, as an art critic for magazines such as Artforum, and illustrated children's books-the first of which was titled The Package, a mystery story in pictures alone.
"O Superman," from Laurie Anderson's 1982 debut album, 'Big Science'
Anderson also hosted the PBS series 'Alive from Off Center' during 1987, after having produced the short film What You Mean We? for the series the year before. What You Mean We? introduced a new character played by Anderson: "The Clone", a digitally altered masculine counterpart to Anderson who later "co-hosted" with her when she did her presenting stint on Alive from Off Center. Elements of The Clone were later incorporated into the titular "puppet" of her later work, Puppet Motel.
In that year, 1987, she also appeared on Peter Gabriel's album So, co-writing and performing on the song "This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)". (A version of “Excellent Birds” was also released on Mister Heartbreak.)
Peter Gabriel - This is the Picture (Excellent Birds) 1987
In 2018, Anderson contributed vocals to a re-recording of the David Bowie song "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)", originally from Bowie's 1987 album Never Let Me Down.
Shining Star (Makin' My Love) (2018) · David Bowie
Backing Vocals: Carlos Alomar Additional Guitar: David Bowie Harmonica, Keyboards, Mellotron, Moog: David Bowie Producer: David Bowie Backing Vocals: David Bowie Producer: David Richards Guitar: David Torn Lead Guitar: David Torn Backing Vocals: Diva Gray Backing Vocals: Erdal Kizilcay Assistant Engineer: Ernesto Valenzuela Backing Vocals: Gordon Grodie Assistant Engineer: Gosha Usov Technician: Gustavo Remor *Spoken Voice Vocals: Laurie Anderson Backing Vocals: Loni Groves Mixing Engineer: Mario J. McNulty Percussion: Mario J. McNulty Producer: Mario J. McNulty Additional Recording: Mario J. McNulty Remastering Engineer: Ray Staff Guitar: Reeves Gabrels Lead Guitar: Reeves Gabrels Rhythm Guitar: Reeves Gabrels Backing Vocals: Robin Clark Drums: Sterling Campbell Drum Programmer: Steven Wolf Bass Guitar: Tim Lefebvre Writer: David Bowie
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