Laurie Anderson heads to California for a weeklong tour that includes performances of Delusion in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles and of Transitory Life at Yoshi's in San Francisco. "I'm trying to represent what I think of as mental drift," Anderson says of Delusion in the Los Angeles Times, "just the way your mind can move from thing to thing." The Santa Barbara Independent recognizes the piece as the latest in "her untouchable performance-art career."
Laurie Anderson was in upstate New York this past weekend giving two performances of her latest theater work, Delusion, at Rensselaer's EMPAC. It was during multiple residencies at EMPAC last year, in part, that Anderson developed the piece, two songs from which are featured on her latest Nonesuch release, Homeland. This week, Anderson heads to California to present Delusion at two University of California campuses—Tuesday at Santa Barbara's Campbell Hall and Thursday at Royce Hall in Los Angeles—followed by performances of her piece Transitory Life at Yoshi's in San Francisco this coming weekend.
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In advance of Thursday's show at Royce Hall, Anderson spoke with the Los Angeles Times from São Paolo, Brazil, where she was presenting a museum show of instruments she had designed. In the interview, Anderson talks to writer Irene Lacher about a number of topics, including what audiences might expect from Delusion.
"I'm trying to represent what I think of as mental drift," Anderson explains, "just the way your mind can move from thing to thing. So it helps to have a lot of different media—music and stories and images. Your mind just processes those things so differently."
Read the complete interview at latimes.com.
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Anderson also spoke with the Santa Barbara Independent's Charles Donelan about Delusion in the run-up to tomorrow night's presentation at UCSB, and about what Donelan calls "her untouchable performance-art career." You can read the article at independent.com.
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For more on Anderson's upcoming performances, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
You can watch a series of videos featuring Fenway Bergamot, Anderson's alter ego, who is featured in both Delusion and Homeland, at nonesuch.com/media. To pick up a copy of Homeland with high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s of the album included at checkout, head to the Nonesuch Store.
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