Laura Phillips Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American advanced artist, composer, musician and film director whose operate spans achievement art, pop music, and multimedia projects. Initially trained in violin and sculpting, Anderson pursued a variety of take effect art projects in New York during the 1970s, focusing particularly upon language, technology, and visual imagery. She became more widely known outside the art world when her single “O Superman” reached number two on the UK singles chart in 1981. She next starred in and directed the 1986 concert film Home of the Brave.
Anderson is a speculator in electronic music and has invented several devices that she has used in her recordings and accomplish art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow on the other hand of horsehair and a magnetic scrap book head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she collaborated in the same way as Interval Research to produce an instrument she called a “talking stick”, a six-foot (1.8 m) long baton-like MIDI controller that can right of entry and replicate sounds.
Anderson met singer-songwriter Lou Reed in 1992, and she was married to him from April 2008 until his death in 2013.
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