ANDERSON, Laurie

Anderson has been sporadically popular since the early ‘80s, following the surprise hit of her eight-minute audio montage 0 Superman. Working in New York since 1973, Anderson had been exposed to the musical experiments of Brian Eno and Philip Glass in evolving her stage shows that included spoken word (often electronically distorted), tape loops, synthesized sounds, mime, film, and light shows. Her best-known work in this mode was the seven-hour production The United States...