27/08/2024
Laurie Anderson "Amelia" (Nonesuch).
Inesauribile artista concettuale, Laurie Anderson (voice, viola, keyboards, electronics) ha il potere di trasformare il suono della sua voce e delle sue idee in qualcosa di sconfinante e nuovo. Tra avanguardia, post punk, elettronica modale e visioni indie. Il 30 agosto esce il nuovo disco Amelia (Nonesuch) di Laurie Anderson. Il lavoro comprende ventidue tracce sul tragico ultimo volo della famosa aviatrice Amelia Earhart. Nell'album, è affiancata dall'orchestra ceca Filharmonie Brno, diretta da Dennis Russell Davies, e Anohni, Gabriel Cabezas, Martha Mooke, Marc Ribot, Tony Scherr, Nadia Sirota e Kenny Wollesen. Recorded by Ryan Kelly at Canal Street Communications, New York City. Laurie Anderson è una delle pioniere creative più rinomate e audaci d'America. Il suo lavoro, che comprende musica, arte visiva, poesia, cinema e fotografia, ha sfidato e deliziato il pubblico di tutto il mondo per più di quarant'anni. Amelia, ci delizia con il suo istinto straordinario ricco di figure fantasiose, generate da una cultura alternativa. Geometrie essenziali.
The Punkt Festival celebrates 10 years in 2014, and have invited one of the most important artistic pioneers to Kristiansand: The American musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson.
Punkt 2014 is arranged on 4 - 6 September. "An Evening with Laurie Anderson" can be experienced at Fønix Cinema on Saturday 6 September. Tickets are available from Monday 9 June, when also the rest of the festival program will be announced.
LAURIE ANDERSON is one of America’s most renowned — and daring — creative pioneers. She is best known for her multimedia presentations and innovative use of technology. As writer, director, visual artist and vocalist she has created groundbreaking works that span the worlds of art, theater and experimental music.
Her recording career, launched by “O Superman” in 1981, includes the soundtrack to her feature film “Home of the Brave” and “Life on a String” (2001). Anderson's live shows range from simple spoken word to elaborate multi-media stage performances such as “Songs and Stories for Moby Dick” (1999). Anderson has published seven books and her visual work has been presented in major museums around the world.
In 2002, Anderson was appointed the first artist-in-residence of NASA which culminated in her 2004 touring solo performance “The End of the Moon.” Recent projects include a series of audio-visual installations and a high-definition film, “Hidden Inside Mountains,” created for World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan. In 2007 she received the prestigious Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize for her outstanding contribution to the arts.
In 2008 she completed a two-year worldwide tour of her performance piece, “Homeland,” which was released as an album on Nonesuch Records in June 2010. Anderson’s solo performance “Delusion” debuted at the Vancouver Cultural Olympiad in February 2010. In October 2010 a retrospective of her visual and installation work opened in Sao Paulo, Brazil and later traveled to Rio de Janiero. In 2011 her exhibition of new visual work titled “Forty-Nine Days In the Bardo” opened in Philadelphia, and “Boat,” her first exhibition of paintings, premiered at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in New York.
She has recently been appointed as a three-year fellow at both EMPAC, the multi media center at RPI in Troy, NY, and PAC at UCLA. Anderson lives in New York City.