Future music

Laurie Anderson is madness in the world with their show on the road.

Experimental music lovers in the UK may know that Laurie Anderson for their 1981 O at number two in the UK achieved Superman, the eerie minimalist piece taken.

Born in Chicago and married to the Velvet Underground's Lou Reed, has five decades stretched her career.

Laurie Anderson sound has as new technologies, to the adaptation of the instruments and software terms according to their genre defining artistic vision developed.

It was recently, NASA's first artist-in-residence and was part of the team behind the music for the opening ceremony for the Olympic Games in Athens.

In an interview with the BBC's Colin grant, Laurie reflects a career always defined by the technology available to it.

"Many years ago, in the 1970s and 1980s, the equipment I used was Studio-equipment."

"It was tender, and broke all the time, and a number of fields." I have the speakers on stage - that no one was doing. "They were made only for the Studio."

Much of her early work should be to accompany part of theatre performance or artistic installations.

Their first single, is it not the ball, music for an installation at the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York in the Laurie that kills you (it's the hole), was played by a jukebox.

Hacking tools

Modern times have Laurie to lose this early limitation rooms and bring their experimental sound in more places than ever before given.

"I swore that I would like to with no boxes travel."

"What I have done in the last year a lot of software that fields replace written will."

Laurie hacks as well as creating software to their hardware.

In the 1970's re-jigged a violin, magnetic tape, which triggers audio samples, if the arc touches the strings horsehair replace them.

Created their own software to their artistic vision track Laurie

Another invention involved adapting a wooden table, so that it plays music through your arms.

But their affection for adaptation and improvement of the technology has its limits.

"Is it really like people to make music?" Yes! It does.

"Does it it in the most important way?" Probably not.

"Although if you me, that on another day questions I probably a different answer you would because frankly the fact that everyone is now both dazzling terrible and."

Just as terrible, she insists, our satisfaction with sub-standard music compression, especially the is mp3 file format.

"First of all," she said. "Half of the parts are missing."

"Set two guitars, and the compression would that were separation - deleted, therefore the guitar went." "It is simply unbearable to listen to a record, I have on the forever worked."

Her latest work, Wahn, heads to the Brighton festival in next month the framework of a global tour and is described as a personal meditation on life, language, memory and identity.

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