Close Listening: A Conversation with Laurie Anderson

For artist Laurie Anderson, listening is an art. The pioneering musician’s extraordinary career, renownedfor a groundbreaking collaborative approach to process and performance, can be seen as an expedition into the complexities of sound and the ways that a conscious mind can both create and experience it.

Laurie’s signature programme for the 2020 New Zealand Festival of the Arts is an invitation to close listening. Laurie joins musicians Shahzad Ismaily and Horomona Horo to discuss the nature of music and mind. Hear it for yourself.