• Critically acclaimed experimental performance artist; pioneer in the discipline
• Invented several devices 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 the traditional hair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge.
• In the late 1990s, she developed a "talking stick", a six-foot long, baton-like MIDI controller that can access and replicate any sounds using the principle of granular synthesis.
• HOMELAND is a multimedia response to Anderson’s own thoughts and reactions in post-Sept. 11 New York City. The work uses the synthetic language of technology and the sensuous language of song writing and poetry to capture Anderson’s compound reply.
• Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance art piece in the late 1960s.
Laurie Anderson has a long history of performing at KU:
• April 1990, Strange Angels
• March 1994, the Lied Center’s premier season
