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{{Short description|American artist and musician (born 1947)}}
{{For|other people|Laurie Anderson (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox musical artist
| name             = Laurie Anderson
| image            = Laurie Anderson at the New Zealand Festival of the Arts lunch 2020 (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Anderson in 2020
| landscape        = 
| background       = solo_singer
| birth_name       = Laura Phillips Anderson
| alias            = 
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1947|06|05}}
| birth_place      = [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], U.S.
| origin           = [[Glen Ellyn, Illinois]], U.S.
| instruments      = {{hlist|Violin|keyboards|percussion|vocals}}
| genre            = {{hlist|[[Art pop]]<ref>{{cite news|last=Holden|first=Stephen|author-link=Stephen Holden|date=February 28, 1999|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/28/arts/music-they-re-recording-but-are-they-artists.html|title=Music; They're Recording, but Are They Artists?|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=July 17, 2013}}</ref>|[[electronic music|electronic]]|[[avant-garde music|avant-garde]]|[[spoken word]]}}
| occupations      = {{hlist|Musician|composer|performance artist|electronic literature writer}}
| years_active     = 1969–present
| label            = {{hlist|[[Warner Records|Warner Bros.]]|[[Nonesuch Records|Nonesuch]]/[[Elektra Records|Elektra]]}}
| website          = {{URL|laurieanderson.com}}
| spouse           = {{marriage|[[Lou Reed]]|2008|2013|end=his death}}
}}
'''Laura Phillips''' "'''Laurie'''" '''Anderson''' (born June 5, 1947) is an American [[avant-garde]] artist,<ref name="Allmusic">{{cite web|last1=Ankeny|first1=Jason|title=Laurie Anderson Biography|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/laurie-anderson-mn0000785773/biography|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref><ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web|last1=Fletcher|first1=Kenneth R.|title=Anderson: The celebrated performance artist discusses Andy Warhol, NASA and her work at McDonald's|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/laurie-anderson-779875/|website=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]|access-date=June 12, 2016}}</ref> musician and filmmaker whose work encompasses performance art, pop music, and [[multimedia]] projects.<ref name="Smithsonian" /> Initially trained in violin and sculpting,<ref name="Amirkhanian">Amirkhanian, Charles. [http://www.dramonline.org/albums/new-music-for-electronic-and-recorded-media-women-in-electronic-music-1977-2/notes "Women in Electronic Music – 1977"]. Liner note essay. [[New World Records]].</ref> Anderson pursued a variety of performance art projects in [[New York City]] during the 1970s, focusing particularly on language, technology, and visual imagery.<ref name="Allmusic" /> She achieved unexpected commercial success when her song "[[O Superman]]" reached number two on the [[UK singles chart]] in 1981.

Anderson's debut studio album ''[[Big Science (Laurie Anderson album)|Big Science]]'' was released in 1982 and has since been followed by a number of studio and live albums. She starred in and directed the 1986 concert film ''[[Home of the Brave (1986 film)|Home of the Brave]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://arted.osu.edu/160/11_Anderson.php |title=AE160D Unit 11: Laurie Anderson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071201215440/http://arted.osu.edu/160/11_Anderson.php |archive-date=December 1, 2007}}</ref> Anderson's creative output has also included theatrical and documentary works, voice acting, art installations, and a [[CD-ROM]]. She is a pioneer in [[electronic music]] and has invented several musical devices that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows.<ref name="Chic">{{cite web|last1=Sachs|first1=Ben|title=Electronic musician Laurie Anderson takes to the big screen|url=http://chicagoreader.com/chicago/heart-of-a-dog-laurie-anderson-9-11-surveillance/Content?oid=19987081|website=[[Chicago Reader]]|date=November 11, 2015|access-date=June 12, 2016|archive-date=November 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121233305/http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/heart-of-a-dog-laurie-anderson-9-11-surveillance/Content?oid=19987081|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Laura Phillips Anderson was born in [[Chicago]] on June 5, 1947, and grew up in the nearby suburb [[Glen Ellyn, Illinois]], one of eight children born to Mary Louise (née Rowland) and Arthur T. Anderson.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-27-ca-woodard27-story.html|title = Her Private Happy Meal|last = Woodard|first = Josef|date = January 27, 2002|accessdate = October 3, 2024|work = [[Los Angeles Times]]|url-access = limited}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Grabel |first=Leanne |date=April 9, 2024 |title=53 things about Laurie Anderson you may or may not know {{!}} Oregon ArtsWatch |url=https://www.orartswatch.org/53-things-about-laurie-anderson-you-may-or-may-not-know/ |access-date=June 19, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> Growing up, she spent weekends studying painting at the [[Art Institute of Chicago]] and played with the [[Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras|Chicago Youth Symphony]].<ref name="Anderson 2021" />

She graduated from [[Glenbard West High School]]. She attended [[Mills College at Northeastern University|Mills College]] in [[California]], and, after moving to New York in 1966,<ref name="Anderson 2021" /> graduated in 1969 from [[Barnard College]] with a [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] ''[[Latin honors#magna cum laude|magna cum laude]]'' and [[Phi Beta Kappa]], studying [[art history]]. In 1972, she obtained an [[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] in sculpture from [[Columbia University]].<ref name=Handy1989>{{cite book |last=Handy |first=Amy |title=Making Their Mark. Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970–1985 |editor1=Randy Rosen |editor2=Catherine C. Brower |chapter=Artist's Biographies – Laurie Anderson |publisher=Abbeville Press |date=1989 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingtheirmarkw0000unse/page/237 237–238] |isbn=0-89659-959-0 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/makingtheirmarkw0000unse/page/237 }}</ref>

Her 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 and as an art critic for magazines such as ''[[Artforum]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazings.com/articles/article0026.html |title=Music Article 0026 |website=Amazings.com |access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> and illustrated children's books<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/anderson/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011006044527/http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/anderson/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 6, 2001 |title=Art:21 . Laurie Anderson . Biography . Documentary Film |publisher=[[PBS]] |access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> — the first of which was titled ''The Package'' (1971), a mystery story in pictures alone.<ref>{{cite web|last=Papageorge|first=John|title=Interview with Laurie Anderson|url=http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/anderson/ander_transcript.html|work=Silicon Valley Radio|publisher=Web Networks, Inc.|access-date=November 10, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012101014/http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/anderson/ander_transcript.html|archive-date=October 12, 2011}}</ref>

== Career ==
=== 1970s ===
[[File:Laurie Anderson, avant-garde, experimental music composer, performance artist 00163.jpg|upright|thumb|Photograph of Anderson in the [[Library of Congress]], [[Washington, D.C.]]]]
Anderson performed in New York during the 1970s. One of her most-cited performances, ''Duets on Ice'', which she conducted in New York and other cities around the world, involved her playing the violin along with a recording while wearing ice skates with the blades frozen into a block of ice; the performance ended only when the ice had melted away. Two early pieces, "New York Social Life" and "Time to Go", are included in the 1977 compilation ''New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media'', along with works by [[Pauline Oliveros]] and others.<ref name="Amirkhanian" /> Two other pieces were included on ''Airwaves'', a collection of audio pieces by various artists. She also recorded a lecture for ''Vision'', a set of artist's lectures released by [[Crown Point Press]] as a set of six [[LP record|LPs]].

Many of Anderson's earliest recordings remain unreleased or were issued only in limited quantities, such as her first single, "It's Not the Bullet that Kills You (It's the Hole)". That song, along with "New York Social Life" and about a dozen others, was originally recorded for use in an art installation that consisted of a [[jukebox]] that played the different Anderson compositions, at the [[Holly Solomon Gallery]] in New York City. Among the musicians on these early recordings are [[Peter Gordon (composer)|Peter Gordon]] on saxophone, [[Scott Johnson (composer)|Scott Johnson]] on guitar, Ken Deifik on harmonica, and Joe Kos on drums. Photographs and descriptions of many of these early performances were included in Anderson's retrospective book ''Stories from the Nerve Bible'' (1993).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Anderson.shtml |title=Laurie Anderson |website=Otherminds.org |access-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927011010/http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Anderson.shtml |archive-date=September 27, 2011  }}</ref>

During the late 1970s, Anderson made a number of additional recordings that were either released privately or included on compilations of avant-garde music, most notably releases by the [[Giorno Poetry Systems]] label run by New York poet [[John Giorno]], an early intimate of [[Andy Warhol]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Laurie+Anderson|title=Laurie Anderson profile at|website=[[Discogs]] |date=June 5, 1947|access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> In 1978, she performed at the Nova Convention, a major conference involving many counter-culture figures and rising avant-garde musical stars, including [[William S. Burroughs]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Frank Zappa]], [[Timothy Leary]], [[Malcolm Goldstein]], [[John Cage]], and [[Allen Ginsberg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ubu.com/sound/nova.html|title=UbuWeb Sound – The Dial-A-Poem Poets: The Nova Convention |website=Ubu.com|access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> She also worked with comedian [[Andy Kaufman]] in the late 1970s.<ref>Laurie Anderson, ''Stories from the Nerve Bible''.</ref>

=== 1980s ===
In 1980, Anderson was awarded an honorary doctorate from the [[San Francisco Art Institute]]. In 1982, she was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] for Creative Arts — Film.<ref name=Handy1989 /> In 1987, Anderson was awarded an honorary doctorate in the fine arts from the [[University of the Arts (Philadelphia)|University of the Arts]] in [[Philadelphia]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Laurie Anderson at 1987 [UArts] commencement |url=http://collections.library.uarts.edu/digital/collection/photohist/id/144/rec/3 |website=UArts Libraries Digital Collections |access-date=December 9, 2020 |location=Philadelphia, PA |language=en |date=May 16, 1987 |archive-date=September 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924010530/https://collections.library.uarts.edu/digital/collection/photohist/id/144/rec/3 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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 [[UK singles chart]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archives.otherminds.org/index.php/Detail/objects/5503 |title=Laurie Anderson Record Release Party| publisher=Other Minds Archives |access-date=May 24, 2024}}</ref> The sudden influx of orders from the UK (prompted partly by British station [[BBC Radio 1]] playlisting the record) led to Anderson signing a seven-album [[recording contract]] with [[Warner Records|Warner Bros. Records]], which re-released the single.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TRb8UlRIzh0C&q=Anderson+became+widely+known+outside+the+art+world+in+1981+with+the+single+%22O+Superman%22%2C&pg=PA175 | title=Singularia: Being at an Edge in Time: a Meditation and Thought Experiment While Crossing the Galactic Core | publisher=Alchemica Productions| first=James M. |last=Harvey | year=2009 | page=187 | isbn=978-0-9807574-1-5}}</ref>

"O Superman" was part of a larger stage work titled ''[[United States Live]]'' (1984) and was included on her debut studio album ''[[Big Science (Laurie Anderson album)|Big Science]]'' (1982).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.laurieanderson.com/news|title=Laurie Anderson official web site |website=Laurieanderson.com|access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> Prior to the release of ''Big Science'', Anderson returned to [[Giorno Poetry Systems]] to record the collaboration album ''[[You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With]]'' (1981); Anderson recorded one side of the double-LP set, with William S. Burroughs and [[John Giorno]] recording a side each, and the fourth side featured a separate groove for each artist. This was followed by the back-to-back releases of her albums ''[[Mister Heartbreak]]'' and ''[[United States Live]]'' (both 1984), the latter of which was a five-LP (and, later, four-CD) recording of her two-evening stage show at the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Laurie Anderson United States Live US Vinyl box set |url=https://uk.rarevinyl.com/products/laurie-anderson-united-states-live-us-vinyl-box-set-925192-1-717548 |access-date=June 19, 2024 |website=RareVinyl.com |language=en}}</ref> She also appeared in a television special produced by [[Nam June Paik]] broadcast on New Year's Day 1984, titled "[[Good Morning, Mr. Orwell]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/good-morning-mr-orwell-look-back-nam-june-paik-video-greeted-1984|title='Good Morning Mr. Orwell': A Look Back at the Nam June Paik Video That Greeted 1984|first=Emily|date=September 5, 2014|publisher=[[Asia Society]]|work=asiasociety.org|access-date=April 11, 2016|author=Feng}}</ref>
[[File:LA21uitsnede.jpg|thumb|Anderson performing at [[Concertgebouw de Vereeniging|De Vereeniging]] in [[Nijmegen]], Netherlands, 1986]]
She next starred in and directed the 1986 concert film ''[[Home of the Brave (1986 film)|Home of the Brave]]'' and also composed the soundtracks for the [[Spalding Gray]] films ''[[Swimming to Cambodia]]'' (1987) and ''[[Monster in a Box]]'' (1992). During this time, she also contributed music to [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]]'s ''[[Alcestis]]'' at the [[American Repertory Theater]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]]. She 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, she also appeared on [[Peter Gabriel]]'s fifth studio album ''[[So (album)|So]]'', co-writing and performing on the song "[[Excellent Birds|This is the Picture (Excellent Birds)]]". (The first version of "Excellent Birds" had been released on ''Mister Heartbreak''.)

Release of Anderson's first post-''Home of the Brave'' album, 1989's ''[[Strange Angels (Laurie Anderson album)|Strange Angels]]'', was delayed for more than a year in order for Anderson to take singing lessons. This was due to the album being more musically inclined (in terms of singing) than her previous works.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Laurie+Anderson |title=CG: Laurie Anderson |first=Robert |last=Christgau |access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> The single "Babydoll" was a moderate hit on the [[Alternative Airplay|Modern Rock Tracks]] chart in 1989.

=== 1990s ===
In 1991, she was a member of the jury at the [[41st Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1991/04_jury_1991/04_Jury_1991.html |title=Berlinale: 1991 Juries |access-date=March 21, 2011 |work=berlinale.de}}</ref> In the same year, Anderson appeared in ''[[Arena (British TV series)|The Human Face]]'', a feature arts documentary directed by artist-filmmakers [[Nichola Bruce]] and Michael Coulson for [[BBC Television]]. Anderson was the presenter in this documentary on the history of the face in art and science. Her face was transformed using latex masks and digital special effects as she introduced ideas about the relationship between [[physiognomy]] and perception. Her varied career in the early 1990s included voice-acting in the animated film ''[[The Rugrats Movie]]'' (1998). In 1994, she created a [[CD-ROM]] titled ''[[Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel|Puppet Motel]]'', which was followed by ''[[Bright Red]]'', co-produced by [[Brian Eno]], and another spoken-word album, ''[[The Ugly One with the Jewels]]'' (1995). This was followed by an appearance on the 1997 charity single "[[Perfect Day (Lou Reed song)#BBC corporate film and charity release|Perfect Day]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002173/|title=Laurie Anderson|website=[[IMDb]]|access-date=April 24, 2014}}</ref>

In 1996, Anderson performed with Diego Frenkel (La Portuária) and [[Aterciopelados]] for the [[HIV/AIDS|AIDS]] benefit album ''[[Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin]]'' produced by the [[Red Hot Organization]].

An interval of more than half a decade followed before her next album release. During this time, she wrote a supplemental article on the cultural character of New York City for the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''<ref>"[http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/07/16/encyclopaedia-anderson Encyclopaedia Anderson]", ''[[The New Yorker]]'', July 16, 2001</ref> and created multimedia presentations, including one inspired by ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' (''Songs and Stories from Moby Dick'', 1999–2000).<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Arts/9906/04/review.spoleto.laurie/ | work=[[CNN]] | access-date=May 7, 2010 | title=Review: Laurie Anderson's 'Moby' – the big blubber}}</ref> One of the central themes in Anderson's work is exploring the effects of technology on human relationships and communication.

Starting in the 1990s, Anderson and [[Lou Reed]], whom she had met in 1992, collaborated on recordings together.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/anderson/ander_transcript.html |title=Interview With Laurie Anderson |website=Transmitmedia.com |access-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930122731/http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/anderson/ander_transcript.html |archive-date=September 30, 2011 }}</ref> Reed contributed to the tracks "In Our Sleep" from Anderson's ''[[Bright Red]]'' (1994), "One Beautiful Evening" from Anderson's ''[[Life on a String (album)|Life on a String]]'' (2001), and "My Right Eye" and "Only an Expert" from Anderson's ''[[Homeland (Laurie Anderson album)|Homeland]]'' (2010), which Reed also co-produced. Anderson contributed to the tracks "Call on Me" from Reed's collaborative project ''[[The Raven (Lou Reed album)|The Raven]]'' (2003), "Rouge" and "Rock Minuet" from Reed's ''[[Ecstasy (Lou Reed album)|Ecstasy]]'' (2000), and "Hang On to Your Emotions" from Reed's ''[[Set the Twilight Reeling]]'' (1996).

In late 1998, Artist Space, New York presented an exhibit of Anderson’s work from 1970s to 1980s, along with her 1990s work, ''Whirlwind''.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Women, art, and technology |date=2003 |publisher=MIT Press |isbn=978-0-262-13424-8 |editor-last=Malloy |editor-first=Judy |series=Leonardo |location=Cambridge, Mass. |page=94}}</ref>

=== 2000s ===
[[File:The Kitchen Benefit, Honoring Laurie Anderson.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Anderson at a 2007 benefit concert]]
''[[Life on a String (album)|Life on a String]]'' appeared in 2001, by which time she signed a new recording contract with another [[Warner Music Group]] label, [[Nonesuch Records]]. ''Life on a String'' was a mixture of new works (including one song recalling the death of her father) and works from the ''Moby-Dick'' presentation.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/laurieanderson/albums/album/111744/review/5941827/life_on_a_string |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114081304/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/laurieanderson/albums/album/111744/review/5941827/life_on_a_string |archive-date=January 14, 2009 |title=Laurie Anderson: Life on a String|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] }}</ref> In 2001, she recorded the audiobook version of [[Don DeLillo]]'s novella ''[[The Body Artist]]''. Anderson went on tour performing a selection of her best-known musical pieces in 2001. One of these performances was recorded in New York City a week after the [[September 11 attacks]], and included a performance of "O Superman". This concert was released in early 2002 as the double CD ''Live in New York''.<ref>{{cite web|last=May |first=Krista L. |url=http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/a/andersonlaurie-live.shtml |title=Laurie Anderson: Live in New York – PopMatters Music Review |website=[[PopMatters]] |access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref>

In 2003, Anderson produced albums with French musicians La Jarry and [[Hector Zazou]] and also performed with them. Zazou's album ''Strong Currents'' (2003), which brought together well-known soloists, features her alongside [[Jane Birkin]], [[Lori Carson]] and [[Irene Grandi]], among others. She became [[NASA]]'s first [[artist-in-residence]] in the same year, which inspired her performance piece ''The End of the Moon''.<ref>{{cite web |last=Stamberg |first=Susan |date=July 3, 2004 |title=NASA Gives Space to Artist in Residence |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3114007 |access-date=February 8, 2011 |publisher=[[NPR]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=June 30, 2004 |title=Moon and Stars Align for Performance Artist |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15916-2004Jun29.html |access-date=May 7, 2010 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> In May 2004, she received an honorary doctorate from [[Columbia University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/locations/uarchives/Forms/Honorary%20Degrees.xls|format=XLS|title=Honorary Degrees List|website=Library.columbia.edu|access-date=September 4, 2024|archive-date=December 21, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181221074047/https://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/locations/uarchives/Forms/Honorary%20Degrees.xls|url-status=dead}}</ref> She was part of the team that created the opening ceremony for the [[2004 Summer Olympics]] in Athens and collaborated with choreographer [[Trisha Brown]] and filmmaker [[Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo]] on the multimedia project ''O Zlozony/O Composite'' for the [[Paris Opera Ballet]] which premiered at the [[Palais Garnier]] in Paris in December 2004. She mounted a succession of themed shows and composed a piece for [[Expo 2005]] in Japan. In 2005, Anderson visited Russia's space program — the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre and mission control — with the [[Arts Catalyst]] and took part in the Arts Catalyst's Space Soon event at the Roundhouse to reflect on her experiences. 

[[File:Laurie Anderson Homeland 3.jpg|thumb|left|Anderson performing ''Homeland'' in [[Milan]], Italy, 2007]]
In 2005, her exhibition ''The Waters Reglitterized'' opened at the [[Sean Kelly Gallery]] in New York City. According to the press release by Sean Kelly,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.laurieanderson.com/public/pdf/WatersPressRelease.pdf |title=Sean Kelly : Laurie Anderson: The Waters Reglitterized |website=Laurieanderson.com |access-date=April 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803135154/http://www.laurieanderson.com/public/pdf/WatersPressRelease.pdf |archive-date=August 3, 2012  }}</ref> the work is a diary of dreams and their literal recreation as works of art. This work uses the language of dreams to investigate the dream itself. The resulting pieces include drawings, prints, and high-definition video. The installation ran until October 22, 2005.

In 2006, Anderson was awarded a [[List of fellows of the American Academy in Rome (1991–2010)|Residency]] at the [[American Academy in Rome]]. She narrated [[Ric Burns]]' ''[[Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film]]'', which was first televised in September 2006 as part of the PBS ''[[American Masters]]'' series. She contributed a song to ''[[Plague Songs]]'', a collection of songs related to the 10 Biblical plagues. Anderson also performed in Came So Far for Beauty, the [[Leonard Cohen]] tribute event held at the [[Point Theatre]] in [[Dublin]], Ireland, on October 4–5, 2006. In November 2006, she published a book of drawings based on her dreams, titled ''Night Life''.

Material from ''Homeland'' was performed at small work-in-progress shows in New York throughout May 2007 supported by a four-piece band with lighting and video visuals mixed live by [[Willie Williams (set designer)|Willie Williams]] and [[Mark Coniglio]], respectively. A European tour of the ''Homeland'' work in progress included performances on September 28–29, 2007, at the [[Olympia Theatre, Dublin]]; on October 17–19 at the [[Melbourne International Arts Festival]]; and in Russia at the Moscow Dom Muzyky concert hall on April 26, 2008. The work was performed in [[Toronto]], Canada, on June 14, 2008, with husband [[Lou Reed]], making the "Lost Art of Conversation" a duet with vocals and guitar. Anderson's ''Homeland Tour'' performed at several locations across the United States as well, such as at the [[Ferst Center for the Arts]], Atlanta, Georgia; The [[Lincoln Center|Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts]], New York City; and [[Harris Theater (Chicago)|Harris Theater]] for Music and Dance in [[Millennium Park]], Chicago, Illinois, co-presented by the [[Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.laurieanderson.com/appearances/2008.shtml | title=Calendar | publisher=Laurie Anderson | access-date=August 8, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110907055605/http://www.laurieanderson.com/appearances/2008.shtml | archive-date=September 7, 2011 | df=mdy-all }}</ref>

=== 2010s ===
[[File:Laurie Anderson amidst the Kronos Quartet in Chicago after performing LANDFALL 2015-03-17 20.53.41 (16851029595).jpg|thumb|Anderson with the [[Kronos Quartet]], after performing ''Landfall'' at the [[Harris Theater (Chicago)|Harris Theater]] in [[Chicago]], 2015]]
In February 2010, Anderson premiered a new theatrical work, titled ''Delusion'', at the [[2010 Winter Olympics]] in [[Vancouver]], Canada. This piece was commissioned by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad and the [[Barbican Centre]], [[London]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/event-listings/laurie-anderson--delusion_65694Sm.html|title=Delusion: A new work by Laurie Anderson|access-date=January 2, 2010|archive-date=March 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100312110754/http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/event-listings/laurie-anderson--delusion_65694Sm.html}}</ref> Anderson was honored with the [[WP Theater|Women's Project Theater]] Woman of Achievement Award in March 2010. In May–June 2010, Anderson curated the [[Vivid Live]] festival in [[Sydney]], together with Lou Reed.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://vividsydney.com/events/vivid-live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100722144306/http://vividsydney.com/events/vivid-live |archive-date=July 22, 2010 |title=Vivid Live}}</ref> Her new studio album ''[[Homeland (Laurie Anderson album)|Homeland]]'' was released on June 22. She performed "Only an Expert" on July 15, 2010, on the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'', and her song "Gravity's Angel" was featured on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] reality television dance competition show ''[[So You Think You Can Dance (American TV series)|So You Think You Can Dance]]'' the same day. She appears as a guest musician on several tracks from experimental [[jazz]] musician [[Colin Stetson]]'s studio album ''[[New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges]]'' (2011).

Anderson developed a theatrical work titled "Another Day in America". The first public showings of this work-in-progress took place in [[Calgary]], [[Alberta]], Canada, in January 2012 as part of Theatre Junction Grand's 2011–12 season and [[One Yellow Rabbit]]'s annual arts festival, the High Performance Rodeo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hprodeo.ca/2012/another-day-in-america|title=HPR: Another Day in America – Laurie Anderson – The High Performance Rodeo: Calgary's International Festival of the Arts|website=Hprodeo.ca|access-date=September 2, 2019}}</ref> Anderson was named the Inaugural Distinguished Artist-In-Residence at the [[Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center]] (EMPAC) at the [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute]] in [[Troy, New York]], in May 2012.<ref>Janairo, M. (May 12, 2012). Brief: EMPAC names Laurie Anderson distinguished artist in residence. ''[[Times Union (Albany)|Times Union]]'' (Albany, NY).</ref> In March 2013, an exhibition of Anderson's work entitled ''Laurie Anderson: Language of the Future, selected works 1971–2013'' at the [[Samstag Museum]] was part of the [[Adelaide Festival|Adelaide Festival of the Arts]] in [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]. Anderson performed her ''Duets on Ice'' outside the Samstag on opening night.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.unisa.edu.au/siteassets/episerver-6-files/global/samstag/exhibitions/2019/samstag-museum-of-art_2019-adelaide-international_catalogue.pdf|website=[[University of South Australia]]|title=2019 Adelaide International|access-date=August 21, 2019|archive-date=April 6, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406054858/https://www.unisa.edu.au/siteassets/episerver-6-files/global/samstag/exhibitions/2019/samstag-museum-of-art_2019-adelaide-international_catalogue.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Anderson received the Honorary Doctor of Arts from the [[Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://arts.aalto.fi/en/current/news/view/2012-10-26/|title=Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture to award eight honorary doctorates|publisher=[[Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture]]|access-date=August 13, 2014}}</ref> In June/July 2013, Anderson performed "The Language of the Future" and guest curated at the [[River to River Festival]] in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/artists/laurie-anderson|title=Laurie Anderson|website=Rivertorivernyc.com|access-date=April 24, 2014|archive-date=June 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616192027/http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/artists/laurie-anderson/}}</ref> In November 2013, she was the featured Guest of Honor at the B3 [[Biennale]] of the Moving Image in [[Frankfurt]], Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=217435031768151&set=a.217434428434878.1073741843.193105940867727&type=3&l=36b3be16e2&theater|title=Laurie Anderson|website=[[Facebook]]|access-date=April 24, 2014}}</ref> In 2018, Anderson contributed vocals to a re-recording of the [[David Bowie]] song "Shining Star (Makin' My Love)", originally from Bowie's seventeenth studio album ''[[Never Let Me Down]]'' (1987). She was asked to join the production by producer [[Mario J. McNulty]], who knew that Anderson and Bowie had been friends.<ref name="nlmdagain">{{citation| url=https://www.davidbowie.com/blog/2018/7/18/david-bowie-loving-the-alien-1983-1988-due-october | title=David Bowie Loving The Alien (1983–1988) due October | date=July 18, 2018 | access-date=July 18, 2018}}</ref>

On February 10, 2019, at the [[61st Annual Grammy Awards]], held in [[Los Angeles]], Anderson and the [[Kronos Quartet]]'s ''Landfall'' won the [[Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance]]. It was Anderson's first collaboration with the Kronos Quartet and her first Grammy Award, and was the second Grammy for Kronos. Inspired by her experience of [[Hurricane Sandy]], [[Nonesuch Records]] said, "''Landfall'' juxtaposes lush electronics and traditional strings by Kronos with Anderson's powerful descriptions of loss, from water-logged pianos to disappearing animal species to Dutch karaoke bars."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nonesuch.com/journal/punch-brothers-laurie-anderson-kronos-quartet-win-grammy-awards-2019-02-10|title=Punch Brothers, Laurie Anderson, Kronos Quartet Win Grammy Awards |website=[[Nonesuch Records]]|date=February 11, 2019 |access-date=September 2, 2019}}</ref>

[[File:Loz laurie anderson dog 2.png|thumb|right|Anderson performing outdoors at [[Times Square]] in [[New York City]], 2016]]
''Chalkroom'' is a virtual reality work by Anderson and Taiwanese artist [[Hsin-Chien Huang]] in which the reader flies through an enormous structure made of words, drawings, and stories.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chalkroom|url=https://laurieanderson.com/?portfolio=chalkroom|access-date=August 31, 2020|website=Laurie Anderson| date=January 15, 2018 |language=en-US}}</ref> ''To the Moon'', a collaboration with Hsin-Chien Huang, premiered at the [[Manchester International Festival]] on July 12, 2019. A 15-minute [[virtual reality]] artwork, ''To the Moon'' allows audience members to explore a moon that features donkey rides and rubbish from Earth in a non-narrative structure.<ref name="guardian-manchester">{{cite news |last1=Still |first1=John |title=Laurie Anderson: 'It's a great time to be creating new realities' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jun/13/laurie-anderson-new-realities-to-the-moon-manchester-international-festival |access-date=July 12, 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 13, 2019}}</ref> Alongside, a film shows the development of the new work.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=Laurie Anderson's ''To the Moon'' Will Make UK Premiere |url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/article/Laurie-Andersons-TO-THE-MOON-Will-Make-UK-Premiere-20190709 |access-date=July 12, 2019 |work=[[BroadwayWorld]] |date=July 9, 2019 |language=en}}</ref>

=== 2020s ===
[[File:Laurie Anderson at the Hirshhorn 1.jpg|thumb|left|Anderson performing with [[Doug Wieselman]] at the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]] in Washington, D.C., 2023]]
Anderson was appointed the 2021 [[Charles Eliot Norton Lectures|Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry]] at [[Harvard University]] and presented a series of [[Charles Eliot Norton Lectures|six lectures]] titled ''Spending the War Without You: Virtual Backgrounds'' over two semesters.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Norton Lectures|url=https://mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/norton-lectures|access-date=January 14, 2021|website=mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu|language=en}}</ref>

In 2021, Anderson created a show on the second floor of the [[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden]] in Washington, D.C., titled "The Weather" and described by ''[[The New York Times]]'' as "a sort of nonretrospective retrospective of one of America's major, and majorly confounding, modern artists".<ref name="Anderson 2021">{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=Sam |title=Laurie Anderson Has a Message for Us Humans |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/06/magazine/laurie-anderson.html |access-date=October 7, 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 6, 2021}}</ref>

In mid-2023, Laurie Anderson created "Looking into a Mirror Sideways", an exhibit that highlights various different styles of her art techniques.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Walton |first=Millie |date=April 19, 2023 |title=An interview with Laurie Anderson |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/laurie-anderson-interview-circa-moderna-museet/ |access-date=October 4, 2023 |website=[[Apollo (magazine)|Apollo]] |language=en-US}}</ref> It opened at the [[Moderna Museet]] in [[Stockholm]], Sweden. Since opening, this artwork has been Anderson's biggest solo show in Europe.{{cn|date=August 2024}}

While in Europe, Anderson teamed up with [[Sexmob]], a New York jazz band. Sexmob and Anderson toured Europe where they performed multiple versions of her songs, but adding a twist to them all. This tour was seen as "an attempt at defying gravity, resisting the pull, [and] reverting the downward fall".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Radosavljević |first=Duška |date=June 26, 2023 |title=Laurie Anderson: "Let X=X." Malmö/ Summer European Tour |url=https://thetheatretimes.com/laurie-anderson-let-xx-malmo-summer-european-tour/ |access-date=October 4, 2023 |website=The Theatre Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2024, Anderson withdrew from a guest professorship at the [[Folkwang University of the Arts]] in [[Essen]], Germany, after university officials objected to her support of a "Letter Against Apartheid" organised by Palestinian artists, calling for "an immediate and unconditional cessation of [[Israeli apartheid|Israeli violence against Palestinians]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/01/laurie-anderson-ends-german-professorship-pro-palestine-letter |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=February 7, 2024 |date=February 1, 2024}}</ref>

In November 2024 Anderson staged ''United States V'', a multimedia performance envisioned as a sequel to ''[[United States Live|United States]]''. The work was commissioned by [[Factory International]] and staged at their Aviva Studios venue in [[Manchester]], England. It featured video appearances from [[Ai Weiwei]] as God and [[Anohni]] as an angel.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rogers |first1=Jude |title=Laurie Anderson: Ark: United States V review – a long and winding bid to make sense of America |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/24/laurie-anderson-ark-united-states-v-review-aviva-studios-manchester-ai-weiwei-a-long-and-winding-bid-to-make-sense-of-america |access-date=27 March 2025 |work=[[The Observer]] |date=24 November 2024}}</ref>

She is a foreign member of the [[Royal Swedish Academy of Music]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Ledamöter | website=Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien | url=https://www.musikaliskaakademien.se/omakademien/organisation/ledamoter.39.html | language=sv | access-date=12 November 2024}}</ref>

== Inventions ==
Anderson has invented several [[experimental musical instrument]]s that she has used in her recordings and performances. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded [[magnetic tape]] on the [[Bow (music)|bow]] instead of horsehair and a magnetic [[tape head]] in the bridge.<ref name=Donshewey>{{cite web|url=http://www.donshewey.com/music_articles/laurie_anderson_NYT.html |title=The Performing Artistry of Laurie Anderson |first=Don |last=Shewey |website=Donshewey.com |access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> In the late 1990s, she collaborated with [[Interval Research Corporation|Interval Research]] to develop an instrument she called a "talking stick", a six-foot-long (1.8 m) [[Club (weapon)|baton]]-like [[MIDI]] controller that can access and replicate sounds.<ref name=AADL/>

=== Tape-bow violin ===
The tape-bow violin is an instrument created by Laurie Anderson in 1977. It uses recorded magnetic tape in place of the traditional horsehair in the bow, and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. Anderson has updated and modified this device over the years. She can be seen using a later generation of this device in her film ''Home of the Brave'' during the ''Late Show'' segment in which she manipulates a sentence recorded by [[William S. Burroughs]]. This version of the violin used MIDI-based audio [[Sampling (music)|samples]], triggered by contact with the bow.

=== Talking stick ===
The talking stick is a six-foot-long baton-like MIDI controller. It was used in the ''Moby-Dick'' tour in 1999–2000. She described it in program notes as follows:<ref name=AADL>{{ cite web |url=https://aadl.org/ums/programs_19990930b |title=University Musical Society: 1999 Fall Season (concert program, September 30{{snd}} October 8, 1999)|publisher=University Musical Society, [[University of Michigan Ann Arbor]] |date=September 1999}}</ref>

{{blockquote|The Talking Stick is a new instrument that I designed in collaboration with a team from [[Interval Research Corporation|Interval Research]] and Bob Bielecki. It is a wireless instrument that can access and replicate any sound. It works on the principle of [[granular synthesis]]. This is the technique of breaking sound into tiny segments, called grains, and then playing them back in different ways. The computer rearranges the sound fragments into continuous strings or random clusters that are played back in overlapping sequences to create new textures. The grains are very short, a few hundredths of a second. Granular synthesis can sound smooth or choppy depending on the size of the grain and the rate at which they're played. The grains are like film frames. If you slow them down enough, you begin to hear them separately.}}

=== Voice filters ===
A recurring motif in Anderson's work is the use of an electric pitch-shifting voice filter that deepens her voice into a [[masculinity|masculine]] register, a technique that Anderson has referred to as "audio [[Drag (entertainment)|drag]]".<ref name=olympiad>{{cite web |url=http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/news/q-a-with-laurie-anderson_268310gd.html |title=Vancouver 2010: Highlights of the Games |website=Vancouver2010.com |access-date=April 24, 2014 |archive-date=July 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721030541/http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/news/q-a-with-laurie-anderson_268310gd.html }}</ref> Anderson has long used the resulting character in her work as a "voice of [[authority]]" or [[conscience]],<ref name=olympiad /> although she later decided that the voice had lost much of its authority and instead began using the voice to provide historical or sociopolitical commentary,<ref name=cbc>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/use-your-delusion-1.924195 |title=Use your delusion |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221013452/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/02/16/f-laurie-anderson-delusion.html |archive-date=February 21, 2010}}</ref> as it is used on "Another Day in America", a piece from her seventh studio album ''[[Homeland (Laurie Anderson album)|Homeland]]'' (2010).

For much of Anderson's career, the voice was nameless or called the Voice of Authority, although as early as 2009<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rogovoy.com/news1798.html |title=Weekend Cultural Highlights 1.15-1.18 |last=Rogovoy |first=Seth |date=January 14, 2009 |website=The Rogovoy Report |access-date=August 24, 2021 |quote=...historian and social commentator Fenway Bergamot}}</ref> it was dubbed Fenway Bergamot at Lou Reed's suggestion.<ref name=cbc /> The cover of ''Homeland'' depicts Anderson in character as Bergamot, with streaks of black makeup to give her a moustache and thick, masculine eyebrows.

In "The Cultural Ambassador", a piece on her second live album ''[[The Ugly One with the Jewels]]'' (1995), Anderson explained some of her perspective on the character:

{{blockquote|(''Anderson:'') I was carrying a lot of electronics so I had to keep unpacking everything and plugging it in and demonstrating how it all worked, and I guess I did seem a little fishy — a lot of this stuff wakes up displaying [[Light-emitting diode|LED]] program readouts that have names like Atom Smasher, and so it took a while to convince them that they weren't some kind of portable espionage system. So I've done quite a few of these sort of impromptu new music concerts for small groups of detectives and customs agents and I'd have to keep setting all this stuff up and they'd listen for a while and they'd say: So um, what's this? And I'd pull out something like<br />(''Bergamot:'') this filter, and say, now this is what I like to think of as the voice of authority. And it would take me a while to tell them how I used it for songs that were, you know, about various forms of control, and they would say, now why would you want to talk like that? And I'd look around at the [[SWAT]] teams, and the undercover agents, and the dogs, and the radio in the corner, tuned to the [[Super Bowl]] coverage of the [[Gulf War|war]]. And I'd say, take a wild guess.}}

== Personal life ==
Anderson moved to New York in 1966 and now lives in [[Tribeca]].<ref>[[John Leland (journalist)|Leland, John]]. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/nyregion/laurie-anderson-new-york.html?_r=0 "Laurie Anderson's Glorious, Chaotic New York From performances for 'six people in a loft' to ''O Superman,'' MTV fame, and her time with Lou Reed, the artist reflects on her many years in New York"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', April 21, 2017. Accessed February 25, 2019. "Ms. Anderson with her dog Willie near her home in TriBeCa".</ref><ref name="Anderson 2021" /> She met musician and songwriter [[Lou Reed]] in 1992, and was married to him from April 2008 until his death in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20195600,00.html |title=Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Wed – Weddings, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed |work=[[People Magazine|People]] |date=April 25, 2008 |access-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-date=April 24, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424232702/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20195600,00.html }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Aleksander |first=Irina |url=http://www.observer.com/2008/morning-memo-4-23-08 |title=Morning Memo: Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson Make it Legal |newspaper=Observer.com |date=April 23, 2008 |access-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119045528/http://www.observer.com/2008/morning-memo-4-23-08 |archive-date=January 19, 2012  }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20080501_laurie.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503174145/http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20080501_laurie.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 3, 2008 |title=6 Music – Laurie & Lou's big day |publisher=[[BBC]] |access-date=April 24, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://music.yahoo.com/news/laurie-anderson-says-final-farewell-to-lou-reed-174603510.html |title=Laurie Anderson Says Final Farewell to Lou Reed |publisher=[[Yahoo Music]] |date=October 6, 2013 |access-date=October 7, 2013}}</ref>

In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy destroyed archives documenting decades of Anderson's creative work, including photographs, performance props, audiovisual equipment, musical instruments, and other materials. This loss became the impetus for her book ''All the Things I Lost in the Flood'' (2018), where she reflects on her career and the ephemeral nature of art.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gelt |first=Jessica |title=Laurie Anderson on turning loss into lemonade, and why that matters |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-laurie-anderson-20180418-story.html |website=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=April 18, 2018 |access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref> Anderson's album ''Landfall'' was also inspired by Hurricane Sandy and won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Laurie Anderson Wins Her First Grammy for an Album Inspired by Hurricane Sandy |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/laurie-anderson-wins-grammy-1462201 |website=[[Artnet|Artnet News]] |date=February 11, 2019 |access-date=May 1, 2025}}</ref>

Anderson is a long-time student of [[Buddhism]] and [[meditation]].<ref name="skepticspath.org">{{cite web |last1=Snibbe |first1=Scott |title=LAURIE ANDERSON'S BUDDHISM: ART, MEDITATION, AND DEATH AS ADVENTURE |url=https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/laurie-andersons-buddhism-art-meditation-and-dying-well/ |website=[[Scott Snibbe|A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment]] |date=May 3, 2022 |access-date=February 26, 2024}}</ref> She first learned meditation on a retreat with the [[Insight Meditation Society]] in 1977.<ref name="skepticspath.org"/> She has since become a student of Tibetan Nepali teacher [[Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche]].<ref name="skepticspath.org"/>

== Discography ==
=== Studio albums ===
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! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | CH
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | DE
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | GR
! scope="col" style="width:3em;font-size:90%;" | NL
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|''[[Big Science (Laurie Anderson album)|Big Science]]''
* Date released: 1982
* Record label: Warner Bros.
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|''[[Mister Heartbreak]]''
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| style="text-align:center;"|41<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.6754a.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Albums - May 5, 1984}}</ref>
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|''[[Home of the Brave (soundtrack)|Home of the Brave]]''
* Date released: 1986
* Record label: Warner Bros.
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|''[[Strange Angels (Laurie Anderson album)|Strange Angels]]''
* Date released: 1989
* Record label: Warner Bros.
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|''[[Bright Red]]''
* Date released: 1994
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* Date released: 2001
* Record label: Nonesuch Records
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|''[[Homeland (Laurie Anderson album)|Homeland]]''
* Date released: 2010
* Record label: Nonesuch Records
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=== Spoken word albums ===
* ''[[The Ugly One with the Jewels]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Heart of a Dog (2015 film)|Heart of a Dog]]'' (Soundtrack) (2015)

=== Live albums ===
* ''[[United States Live]]'' (boxed set) (1984) US No. 192
* ''[[Live in New York (Laurie Anderson album)|Live in New York]]'' (2002)

=== Compilation albums ===
* ''[[Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology]]'' (2000)

=== Audio book ===
* ''[[The Body Artist]]'' by [[Don DeLillo]] (2001)

=== Collaborations ===
* ''Airwaves'' (1977 – One Ten Records); various artists compilation including three tracks by Anderson
* ''[[You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With]]'' with [[William S. Burroughs]] and [[John Giorno]] (1981 – [[Giorno Poetry Systems]])
* "[[Excellent Birds|This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)]]" with [[Peter Gabriel]] (1986, ''[[So (album)|So]]'' – [[Geffen Records|Geffen]] / [[Charisma Records|Charisma]])
* "Design for Living", with [[Nona Hendryx]] (1983), ''Nona'', also with [[Gina Schock]] of [[the Go-Go's]], Valerie Simpson of [[Ashford & Simpson]], [[Tina Weymouth]] of [[Tom Tom Club]] and [[Talking Heads]], [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]] of [[Heart (band)|Heart]], and former bandmate [[Patti LaBelle]]
* "Diva" from ''[[Zoolook]]'' by [[Jean-Michel Jarre]] (1984 – [[Dreyfus Records|Disques Dreyfus]])
* "Tightrope" and "Speak My Language" (1993; ''[[Faraway, So Close!#Music|Faraway, So Close!]]'' Soundtrack – [[SBK Records|SBK Records / ERG]])
* ''A Chance Operation: The John Cage Tribute'' with text by [[John Cage]] (1993 – [[Lionsgate Canada|Koch International Classics]])
* "Enquanto Isso" with [[Marisa Monte]] (1994, ''[[Verde, Anil, Amarelo, Cor de Rosa e Carvão|Verde, anil, amarelo, cor de rosa e carvão]]'' – [[EMI|EMI-Odeon]]) (1994, ''Rose and Charcoal'' – [[Blue Note Records]])
* "Una hoja, una raiz (One Leaf, One Root)" with Diego Frenkel (La Portuária) and [[Aterciopelados]] (1996, ''[[Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin]]'' – H.O.L.A)
* "Je me souviens" by [[Jean Michel Jarre]] (2000, ''[[Métamorphoses (album)|Métamorphoses]]'' – [[Sony Music Entertainment (United States)|Sony Music]])
* "Gentle Breeze" with [[Lou Reed]] (2004, ''Mary Had a Little Amp'' – a preschool education benefit CD – [[Epic Records|Epic]])
* "The Fifth Plague (the Death of Livestock)" (2006, ''[[Plague Songs]]'' – [[4AD]])
* ''[[The Stone: Issue Three]]'' with [[John Zorn]] and [[Lou Reed]] (2008 – [[Tzadik Records|Tzadik]])
* "The Electrician" (2009, ''[[Scott Walker: 30 Century Man|Music Inspired by the Film Scott Walker: 30 Century Man]]'' – [[Lakeshore Entertainment#Lakeshore Records|Lakeshore]])
* ''[[Femina (album)|Femina]]'' by [[John Zorn]] (2009 – [[Tzadik Records|Tzadik]])
* ''[[New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges]]'' by [[Colin Stetson]] (2011 – [[Constellation Records (Canada)|Constellation]])
* "Rely on Me" with [[Jean Michel Jarre]] (2015, ''[[Electronica 1: The Time Machine]]'' – [[Columbia Records|Columbia]])
* ''Landfall'' (2018) (with [[Kronos Quartet]]) (BE #146, NL #186, PT #36)
* ''Songs from the [[Bardo Thodol|Bardo]]'' (2019) (with [[Tenzin Choegyal]] and [[Jesse Paris Smith]])

=== Singles ===
* "[[O Superman]]" (1981) No. 28 AUS;<ref name=aus/> No. 2 [[UK singles chart|UK]];<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums" /> BE (Vl) No. 19; IRL No. 11; NL No. 10; NZ No. 21
* "Big Science" (1981)
* "Sharkey's Day" (1984)
* "Language Is a Virus" (1986) No. 96 AUS;<ref name=aus/>
* "Strange Angels" (1989)
* "Babydoll" (1989) No. 7 US [[Alternative Airplay|Modern Rock Tracks]]
* "Beautiful Red Dress" (1990)
* "In Our Sleep" (1994)
* "Big Science 2" (2007) 
* "Mambo and Bling" (2008)
* "Only an Expert" (2010)<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/only-an-expert|title = Only an Expert by Laurie Anderson|date = October 2, 2011|access-date = October 3, 2015|website = Nonesuch.com}}</ref>

The single "Sharkey's Day" was for many years the theme song of basic cable channel [[Lifetime (TV channel)|Lifetime]]. Anderson also recorded a number of limited-release singles in the late 1970s (many issued from the Holly Soloman Gallery), songs from which were included on a number of compilations, including [[Giorno Poetry Systems]]' ''The Nova Convention'' and ''You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With''. Over the years she has performed on recordings by other musicians such as [[Peter Gabriel]], [[Lou Reed]], and [[Jean-Michel Jarre]]. She also contributed lyrics to the [[Philip Glass]] album ''[[Songs from Liquid Days]]'', and contributed a spoken-word piece to a tribute album in honor of [[John Cage]].

== Music videos ==
[[File:Laura Anderson at Donaufestival, Krems, Austria (9450538781).jpg|thumb|right|200px|Anderson performing at [[Donaufestival]] in [[Krems an der Donau]], Austria, 2012]]
Formal music videos have been produced for:
* "O Superman"
* "Sharkey's Day"
* "This Is the Picture (Excellent Birds)"
* "Language Is a Virus" (from ''Home of the Brave'')
* "Beautiful Red Dress"

In addition, in lieu of making another music video for her ''Strange Angels'' album, Anderson taped a series of one- to two-minute "Personal Service Announcements" in which she spoke about issues such as the U.S. [[government debt]] and the arts scene. Some of the music used in these productions came from her soundtrack of ''Swimming to Cambodia''. The [[Public service announcement|PSAs]] were frequently shown between music videos on [[VH1]] in early 1990.

== Films ==
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* ''Dearreader: How to Turn a Book into a Movie'' – 1974
* ''{{Interlanguage link|Closed Circuit (1983 film)|de|3=System ohne Schatten|lt=Closed Circuit}}'' – 1983
* ''[[Home of the Brave (1986 film)|Home of the Brave: A Film by Laurie Anderson]]'' – 1986
* ''[[What You Mean We?]]'' – 1987
* ''Hotel Deutschland'' – 1992
* ''[[The Rugrats Movie]]''  – 1998 (as a character voice)
* ''Laurie Anderson: On Performance: ART/new york No. 54'' – 2001 <ref>{{Cite web|title = Laurie Anderson: On Performance: ART/new york No. 54|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvdDK2eivsc|website = ART/newyork.org| date=December 4, 2011 |access-date = December 20, 2018}}</ref>
* ''Life on a String'' – 2002
* ''Hidden Inside Mountains'' – 2006
* ''[[Heart of a Dog (2015 film)|Heart of a Dog]]'' – (2015)
* ''[[Feminists: What Were They Thinking?]]'' – (2018)
* ''[[Sisters with Transistors]]'' – (2020) – narrator 
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== Digital media ==
* ''[[Laurie Anderson's Puppet Motel|Puppet Motel]]'' ([[Mac (computer)|Macintosh]] [[CD-ROM]], 1995) – collaboration with [[Hsin-Chien Huang]].

== Legacy ==
In 2013, Dale Eisinger of [[Complex Networks#Complex|''Complex'']] ranked ''United States'' as the third greatest work of performance art ever, with the writer arguing that Anderson is "able to ascertain just exactly the climate of life in the United States, without being so punctuated that it causes a standoff. Perhaps the zenith of this configuration was her multimedia performance, 'United States I – IV.' [...] [Anderson displays] her vast, incisive range of talents on the 'United States Live' recordings."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Eisinger|first=Dale|date=April 9, 2013|title=The 25 Best Performance Art Pieces of All Time|url=https://www.complex.com/style/2013/04/the-25-best-performance-art-pieces-of-all-time/|access-date=February 28, 2021|website=[[Complex Networks#Complex|Complex]]|language=en}}</ref>

== Awards and nominations ==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" 
|-
! scope="col" | Award
! scope="col" | Year
! scope="col" | Nominee(s)
! scope="col" | Category
! scope="col" | Result
! scope="col" class="unsortable"| {{Abbr|Ref.|References}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[Adelaide Film Festival]]
| [[2015 Adelaide Film Festival|2015]]
| rowspan=5|''[[Heart of a Dog (2015 film)|Heart of a Dog]]''
| rowspan=2|Best Documentary 
| {{won}}
| rowspan=5|<ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002173/awards | title=Laurie Anderson | website=[[IMDb]] }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"|[[Chicago International Film Festival]]
| 2015
| {{won}}
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=3|[[Cinema Eye Honors|Cinema Eye Honors Awards]]
| rowspan=3|2016
| Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Score
| {{won}}
|-
| Outstanding Achievement in Direction
| {{nom}}
|-
| Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design or Animation
| {{nom}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[VEB Deutsche Schallplatten|Deutsche Schallplatten Prize]]
| 2001
| ''[[Life on a String (album)|Life on a String]]''
| Deutsche Schallplatten Prize
| {{won}}
| <ref name="auto1">{{cite web | url=https://gishprize.org/recipients/laurie-anderson/ | title=Laurie Anderson &#124; the Dorothy & Lillian Gish Prize | website=Gishprize.org | access-date=May 19, 2022 | archive-date=April 7, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407124053/https://gishprize.org/recipients/laurie-anderson/ | url-status=dead }}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"|[[Independent Spirit Awards|Film Independent Spirit Awards]]
| [[31st Independent Spirit Awards|2016]]
| ''[[Heart of a Dog (2015 film)|Heart of a Dog]]''
| [[Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature|Best Documentary Feature]]
| {{nom}}
| <ref name="auto"/>
|-
!scope="row"|[[Edison Award]]s
| 1983
| ''[[Big Science (Laurie Anderson album)|Big Science]]''
| Extra International 
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.edisons.nl/pop/edities/1983/ | title=1983 |website=edisons.nl}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=6|[[Grammy Awards]]
| [[27th Annual Grammy Awards|1985]]
| "[[Mister Heartbreak|Gravity's Angel]]"
| [[Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals|Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s)]]
| {{nom}}
| rowspan=5|<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/artists/laurie-anderson/1632 |title=Laurie Anderson at the Grammy Awards - Archived copy |access-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-date=May 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519222847/https://www.grammy.com/artists/laurie-anderson/1632 }}</ref>
|-
| [[33rd Annual Grammy Awards|1991]]
| ''[[Strange Angels (Laurie Anderson album)|Strange Angels]]''
| [[Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album|Best Alternative Music Performance]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[53rd Annual Grammy Awards|2011]]
| "[[Homeland (Laurie Anderson album)|Flow]]"
| [[Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance|Best Pop Instrumental Performance]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[61st Annual Grammy Awards|2019]]
| "Landfall"
| [[Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance|Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[63rd Annual Grammy Awards|2021]]
| ''Songs from the Bardo''
| [[Grammy Award for Best New Age, Ambient or Chant Album|Best New Age Album]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[66th Annual Grammy Awards|2024]]
| ''Words & Music, May 1965 – Deluxe Edition''
| [[Grammy Award for Best Historical Album|Best Historical Album]]
| {{nom}}
|<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.grammy.com/news/2024-grammys-nominations-full-winners-nominees-list | title=2024 GRAMMY Nominations: See The Full Nominees List|website=Grammy.com| date=November 11, 2023}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=2|[[Gotham Awards]]
| rowspan=2|[[Gotham Independent Film Awards 2015|2015]]
| rowspan=3| ''[[Heart of a Dog (2015 film)|Heart of a Dog]]''
| [[Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Documentary|Best Documentary]]
| {{nom}}
|rowspan=4|<ref name="auto"/>
|-
| Audience Award
| {{nom}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[La Roche-sur-Yon International Film Festival]]
| 2015
| Prix Nouvelles Vagues Acuitis
| {{nom}}
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=3|[[Locarno Film Festival|Locarno International Film Festival]]
| 2005
| rowspan=1|''Hidden Inside Mountains''
| Golden Leopard – Video
| {{nom}}
|-
| 2015
| Herself
| Lifetime Achievement Award
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2022/film/news/locarno-laurie-anderson-award-1235240806/ | title=Locarno to Celebrate Laurie Anderson with Lifetime Achievement Award|website=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] | date=April 26, 2022 }}</ref>
|-
| [[75th Locarno Film Festival|2022]]
| Herself
| [[Vision Award (Locarno Film Festival)| Vision Award Ticinomoda]]
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/cinema/2022/08/10/anderson-troppe-armi-in-usa-temo-sorta-guerra-civile_84070912-ffa8-4ca6-93f5-759817279ece.html |title=Laurie Anderson, troppe armi in Usa, temo sorta di guerra civile|trans-title=Laurie Anderson, too many weapons in the US, I fear a kind of civil war|author=Francesca Pierleoni |website=[[Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata]] | date=August 10, 2022|language=it}}</ref>
|-
!scope="row"|[[Charles Eliot Norton Lectures]] 
| 2021–2022
| Herself
| Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry at Harvard University
| awarded
| 
|-
!scope="row"|Tenco Prize
| 2001
| Herself
| Tenco Prize for Songwriting 
| {{won}}
| <ref name="auto1"/>
|-
!scope="row"|[[Tribeca Festival|Tribeca Film Festival]]
| 2006
| ''Hidden Inside Mountains''
| Best Narrative Short
| {{nom}}
|rowspan=5|<ref name="auto"/>
|-
!scope="row"|[[Tromsø International Film Festival]]
| 2016
| rowspan=4|''[[Heart of a Dog (2015 film)|Heart of a Dog]]''
| Aurora Award
| {{won}}
|-
!scope="row" rowspan=3|[[Venice Film Festival]]
| rowspan=3|[[72nd Venice International Film Festival|2015]]
| Lina Mangiacapre Award
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Lion]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| Green Drop Award
| {{nom}}
|-
!scope="row"|[[Wolf Prize]]
| 2017
| Herself
| Award for Art
| {{won}}
| <ref>{{cite web | url=https://artreview.com/news-5-jan-2017-winners-of-the-wolf-prize-for-arts-announced/ | title=Lawrence Weiner and Laurie Anderson awarded Wolf Prize|website=[[ArtReview]] }}</ref>
{{end}}

== Television ==
* ''Bei Bio'' – musical guest on German TV show, 1984
* ''[[The New Show]]'' – musical guest, 1984
* ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' – musical guest, 1986 <ref>{{Cite web|title = Laurie Anderson – Musical Guest Appearance|url = http://snl.jt.org/guest.php-i=849.html|website = Saturday Night Live Archives|access-date = October 4, 2015|date = April 19, 1986}}</ref>
* ''[[Alive from Off Center]]'' – host, 1987
* '' [[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]] ''– guest 1996 <ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jimdavies.org/laurie-anderson/work/interviews/space-ghost-12-18-1996.html?ep=32&fmt=3 |title=Episode 32 – "Art Show" |website=Jimdavies.org |date=December 18, 1996 |access-date=November 1, 2013}}</ref>
* ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' – guest 2010 <ref>{{Citation|url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yVBRDNnt1o | title = Laurie Anderson – Only An Expert (Live Letterman) 2010| date = November 9, 2010|publisher=[[YouTube]] | access-date = October 4, 2015}}</ref>
* [[PBS News Hour|PBS Newshour]] —guest October 4, 2024 <ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKGnmvzIzI |title=Laurie Anderson on finding inspiration in Amelia Earhart's story for her new album |date=2024-10-04 |last=PBS NewsHour |access-date=2024-10-05 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

== Audiobooks ==
* ''The Path to Tranquility'' by [[14th Dalai Lama|His Holiness the Dalai Lama]] – co-narrator, 1999
* ''[[The Body Artist]]'' by [[Don DeLillo]] – sole narrator, 2001
* ''Nothing in My Pockets'' – two-part sound diary recorded in 2003, orig. 2006 French radio broadcast, booklet with text and photography (Dis Voir, 2009) {{ISBN|978-2-914563-43-7}} (also published in French)

== Bibliography ==
* ''United States'' ([[HarperCollins]], 1984) {{ISBN|0-06-091110-7}}
* ''Empty Places (A Performance)'' (Harper Perennial, 1991) {{ISBN|978-0-06-096586-0}}
* ''Stories from the Nerve Bible: A Twenty-Year Retrospective'' ([[HarperCollins]], 1994) {{ISBN|0-06-055355-3}}
* ''Dal vivo'' (Fondazione Prada, 1999) {{ISBN|88-87029-10-5}}
* ''Night Life'' (Edition 7L, 2007) {{ISBN|3-86521-339-1}}
* ''All the Things I Lost in the Flood'' (Rizzoli Electa, 2018) {{ISBN|0-8478-6055-8}}

== References ==
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

== Further reading ==
* Golden, Barbara. "Conversation with Laurie Anderson". [http://cec.concordia.ca/econtact/12_2/interviews_golden.html ''eContact! 12.2 – Interviews (2)''] (April 2010). Montréal: [[Canadian Electroacoustic Community|CEC]].
* Mutant, Mite. "[http://thechickenfishspeaks.com/interview-laurie-anderson/ Talking with Laurie Anderson]". ''Mutant Renegade Zine'' #7, June 1996.
* Nicom, John. "[http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/sep/12/homeland_insecurity_laurie_anderson_takes_uncompro Homeland insecurity: Laurie Anderson takes uncompromising look at how America has changed]". ''LJWorld.com''. September 12, 2008.
* {{cite magazine|title=Laurie Anderson|magazine=Music Technology|page=75|date=July 1987|volume=1|issue=9|issn=0957-6606|oclc=24835173}}

== External links ==
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* {{Official website|http://www.laurieanderson.com/}}
* {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0000785773}}
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* {{IMDb name|nm0002173}}
* {{cite web |url=http://rhino.com/features/liners/76648lin.html |title=Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology (Liner Notes) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010111023000/http://rhino.com/features/liners/76648lin.html |archive-date=January 11, 2001}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060820200018/http://www.laurieanderson.com/public/pdf/WatersNotesCredits.pdf Some Notes on Seeing: The Waters Reglitterized] By Laurie Anderson for exhibition 2005
* {{cite web |url=http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/story.php?sid=78&sec=earth |title=Eclectic Laurie Anderson visits Ames |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030818200546/http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/story.php?sid=78&sec=earth |archive-date=August 18, 2003}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Overview/NASA.Art.Program/.index.html |title=NASA Art Program |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981201084829/http://www.spacelink.nasa.gov/NASA.Overview/NASA.Art.Program/.index.html |archive-date=December 1, 1998}}
* [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/may/16/laurie-anderson-interview Guardian interview.]
* [http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/laurie-anderson-life-storytelling A Life of Storytelling. An interview with Laurie Anderson, 2016] Video by [[Louisiana Channel]]
* [https://soundcloud.com/gg-gives-good-mic/laurie-anderson SoundCloud - Hear the world's sounds] with Georgina Godwin
* [http://channel.louisiana.dk/video/laurie-anderson-advice-young Advice to Young Artists. An interview with Laurie Anderson, 2016] Video by [[Louisiana Channel]]
* [https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/50/757 Laurie Anderson on Self-Playing Violin, MoMA Audio]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bncsR45hxGU&t=268s A Trip to the Moon. An interview with Laurie Anderson & Hsin-Chien Huang, 2018] Video by [[Louisiana Channel]]
* [https://www.cbsnews.com/video/laurie-anderson-60-minutes-video-2022-04-03/ ''60 Minutes'' profile], April 3, 2022
* [http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1419-laurie-anderson WTF with Marc Maron], March 20, 2023

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