Laurie Anderson, the 71-year-old performance artist, storyteller, musician and wife of Lou Reed, was looking out at the fog. She seemed exhausted, but her green eyes were alert. I met her in her green room in the middle of a packed four-day festival at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, where she was joined by her colleagues, the Tibetan monk Tenzin Choegyal, bassist Greg Cohen, and guitarist Steward Hurwood. In her soft voice, she spoke to me about loud drones, structural sound, and the apocalypse.
The Nature of the Mind
An interview with Laurie Anderson
