{"63760":{"#nid":"63760","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Workshop and Lecture: Experimental Performance Artist Laurie Anderson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E***PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION***\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology (GTCMT) presents noted experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson for a public workshop and lecture. Anderson will discuss her recent works and collaborative experimentation with Georgia Tech students, faculty and researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring her visit, Anderson also will work with researchers from GTCMT, the Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access, the School of Psychology, and the School of Interactive Computing on a study that explores how musicians translate dynamic visual displays into music.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Ch4\u003EAbout Laurie Anderson\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELaurie Anderson is one of today\u2019s premier performance artists. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. Initially trained as a sculptor, she did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s.\u0026nbsp; Anderson has gone on to create large-scale theatrical works which combine a variety of media\u2014music, video, storytelling, projected imagery, sculpture\u2014in which she is an electrifying performer. As a\nvisual artist, her work has been shown at the Guggenheim Museum in SoHo, New York, as well as extensively in Europe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. She has also released seven albums for Warner Bros., including \u201cBig Science,\u201d featuring the song \u201cO Superman\u201d which rose to number two on the British pop charts. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAnderson has invented several novel musical instrument that she has used in her recordings and performance art shows. In 1977, she created a tape-bow violin that uses recorded magnetic tape on the bow instead of horsehair and a magnetic tape head in the bridge. In the late 1990s, she\ndeveloped a talking stick, a six-foot-long batonlike MIDI controller that can access and replicate different sounds. In 1999, she staged \u201cSongs and Stories From Moby Dick,\u201d an interpretation of Herman Melville\u0027s 1851 novel. She lives in New York.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPresented by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Presented by the Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology."}],"uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2011-01-20 16:06:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:53:52","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-02-03T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-02-03T13:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-02-03T13:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-02-03 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-02-03 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-02-03 18:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"63761":{"id":"63761","type":"image","title":"Laurie Anderson","body":null,"created":"1449176708","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:05:08","changed":"1475894559","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:39","alt":"Laurie Anderson","file":{"fid":"191870","name":"laurie1.gif","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/laurie1_0.gif","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/laurie1_0.gif","mime":"image\/gif","size":85841,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/laurie1_0.gif?itok=GkG3Ltf9"}}},"media_ids":["63761"],"groups":[{"id":"1218","name":"Digital Lounge - Entertainment and Music"},{"id":"1220","name":"Digital Lounge"},{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1225","name":"School of Industrial Design"},{"id":"1227","name":"School of Music"},{"id":"48996","name":"School of Architecture"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"6865","name":"artist"},{"id":"3997","name":"experimental"},{"id":"1180","name":"Music"},{"id":"1309","name":"music technology"},{"id":"1956","name":"Performance"},{"id":"5709","name":"Performance Art"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:leslie.bennett@coa.gatech.edu\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELeslie Bennett\u003C\/a\u003E, Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}