![]() Burroughs and flown to a tropical island with John Cage. ![]() She has helped design an Olympics opening ceremony, served as the official artist in residence for NASA, made an opera out of “Moby-Dick” and played a concert for dogs at the Sydney Opera House. Over the course of her incessant career, Anderson has done just about everything a creative person can do. She piles up phrases the way van Gogh piled up brush strokes. Words emerge from her mouth deliberate and hyperenunciated, surrounded by unpredictable pauses. Although Anderson plays multiple instruments, her signature tool has always been her voice. ![]() She has been busy now for roughly 50 years, hauling her keyboards and experimental violins all over the world to put on huge bonanzas of lasers and noise loops and incantatory monologues that she delivers in a voice somewhere between slam poetry, an evening newscast, a final confession and a bedtime story. When the Hirshhorn Museum told Laurie Anderson that it wanted to put on a big, lavish retrospective of her work, she said no. ![]() To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android. ![]()
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