Laurie Anderson

After briefly entering the pop mainstream in 1981 with her hit "O Superman," musician, composer, performance artist, and technology buff Laurie Anderson has enjoyed public visibility greater than virtually any other avant-garde figure of her era. Her occasional forays into popular music aside, Anderson remained firmly grounded within the realm of performance art, with her ambitious multimedia projects encompassing not only music but film, visual projections, dance, and spoken and written language, the cornerstone of all of her work. Her recorded catalog after Big Science (her ...