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Laurie Anderson on Her Surprising (to Her) Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award: ‘I’m Glad to See They’re Softening’ on ‘Experimental Stuff’
Laurie Anderson recounts her recording history as she receives something surprising to her--the Recording Academy's lifetime achievement honor.
The back-and-forth, genre-jumbling that she spoke of refers to a densely-knotted, recorded body of experimental music and spoken word work for which she’s received six Grammy nominations and one win: Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for her 2018 “Landfall” album with the Kronos Quartet during the 61 st annual awards. Anderson’s wildly wide oeuvre includes recordings for independent labels (from 1981’s Giorno Poetry Systems double album “You’re the Guy I Want to Share My Money With,” co-starring William S. Burroughs, to 2019’s “Songs from the Bardo” with Tenzin Choegyal and Jesse Paris Smith on Smithsonian Folkways). Though the avant-garde composer, performance artist and digital storyteller started her aesthetic life in painting and sculpting, one challenge that has long existed for Andreson has been creating music that was dynamic enough to see, feel and smell.
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