Editing Laurie Anderson (section)

=== Voice filters ===
A recurring motif in Anderson's work is the use of an electric pitch-shifting voice filter that deepens her voice into a [[masculinity|masculine]] register, a technique that Anderson has referred to as "audio [[drag (clothing)|drag]]".<ref name=olympiad>{{cite web |url=http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/news/q-a-with-laurie-anderson_268310gd.html |title=Vancouver 2010: Highlights of the Games |website=Vancouver2010.com |access-date=April 24, 2014 |archive-date=July 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721030541/http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-events/news/q-a-with-laurie-anderson_268310gd.html }}</ref> Anderson has long used the resulting character in her work as a "voice of [[authority]]" or [[conscience]],<ref name=olympiad /> although she later decided that the voice had lost much of its authority and instead began using the voice to provide historical or sociopolitical commentary,<ref name=cbc>{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/use-your-delusion-1.924195 |title=Use your delusion |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221013452/http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2010/02/16/f-laurie-anderson-delusion.html |archive-date=February 21, 2010}}</ref> as it is used on "Another Day in America", a piece from her 2010 album ''[[Homeland (Laurie Anderson album)|Homeland]]''.

For much of Anderson's career, the voice was nameless or called the Voice of Authority, although as early as 2009<ref>{{cite web |url=https://rogovoy.com/news1798.html |title=Weekend Cultural Highlights 1.15-1.18 |last=Rogovoy |first=Seth |date=January 14, 2009 |website=The Rogovoy Report |access-date=August 24, 2021 |quote=...historian and social commentator Fenway Bergamot}}</ref> it was dubbed Fenway Bergamot at Lou Reed's suggestion.<ref name=cbc /> The cover of ''Homeland'' depicts Anderson in character as Bergamot, with streaks of black makeup to give her a moustache and thick, masculine eyebrows.

In "The Cultural Ambassador", a piece on her album ''[[The Ugly One with the Jewels]]'', Anderson explained some of her perspective on the character:

{{blockquote|(''Anderson:'') I was carrying a lot of electronics so I had to keep unpacking everything and plugging it in and demonstrating how it all worked, and I guess I did seem a little fishy — a lot of this stuff wakes up displaying LED program readouts that have names like Atom Smasher, and so it took a while to convince them that they weren't some kind of portable espionage system. So I've done quite a few of these sort of impromptu new music concerts for small groups of detectives and customs agents and I'd have to keep setting all this stuff up and they'd listen for a while and they'd say: So um, what's this? And I'd pull out something like<br />(''Bergamot:'') this filter, and say, now this is what I like to think of as the voice of authority. And it would take me a while to tell them how I used it for songs that were, you know, about various forms of control, and they would say, now why would you want to talk like that? And I'd look around at the [[SWAT]] teams, and the undercover agents, and the dogs, and the radio in the corner, tuned to the Super Bowl coverage of the [[Gulf War|war]]. And I'd say, take a wild guess.}}