Editing Laurie Anderson (section)

=== 1970s ===
[[File:Laurie Anderson, avant-garde, experimental music composer, performance artist 00163.jpg|upright|thumb|Photograph of Anderson in the [[Library of Congress]]]]
Anderson performed in New York during the 1970s. One of her most-cited performances, ''Duets on Ice'', which she conducted in New York and other cities around the world, involved her playing the violin along with a recording while wearing ice skates with the blades frozen into a block of ice; the performance ended only when the ice had melted away. Two early pieces, "New York Social Life" and "Time to Go", are included in the 1977 compilation ''New Music for Electronic and Recorded Media'', along with works by [[Pauline Oliveros]] and others.<ref name="Amirkhanian" /> Two other pieces were included on ''Airwaves'', a collection of audio pieces by various artists. She also recorded a lecture for ''Vision'', a set of artist's lectures released by [[Crown Point Press]] as a set of six LPs.

Many of Anderson's earliest recordings remain unreleased or were issued only in limited quantities, such as her first single, "It's Not the Bullet that Kills You (It's the Hole)". That song, along with "New York Social Life" and about a dozen others, was originally recorded for use in an art installation that consisted of a [[jukebox]] that played the different Anderson compositions, at the [[Holly Solomon Gallery]] in New York City. Among the musicians on these early recordings are [[Peter Gordon (composer)|Peter Gordon]] on saxophone, [[Scott Johnson (composer)|Scott Johnson]] on guitar, Ken Deifik on harmonica, and Joe Kos on drums. Photographs and descriptions of many of these early performances were included in Anderson's retrospective book ''Stories from the Nerve Bible''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Anderson.shtml |title=Laurie Anderson |website=Otherminds.org |access-date=October 2, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927011010/http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Anderson.shtml |archive-date=September 27, 2011  }}</ref>

During the late 1970s, Anderson made a number of additional recordings that were either released privately or included on compilations of avant-garde music, most notably releases by the [[Giorno Poetry Systems]] label run by New York poet [[John Giorno]], an early intimate of [[Andy Warhol]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/Laurie+Anderson|title=Laurie Anderson profile at|website=Discogs.com |date=June 5, 1947|access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> In 1978, she performed at the Nova Convention, a major conference involving many counter-culture figures and rising avant-garde musical stars, including [[William S. Burroughs]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Frank Zappa]], [[Timothy Leary]], [[Malcolm Goldstein]], [[John Cage]], and [[Allen Ginsberg]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ubu.com/sound/nova.html|title=UbuWeb Sound – The Dial-A-Poem Poets: The Nova Convention |website=Ubu.com|access-date=October 2, 2011}}</ref> She also worked with comedian [[Andy Kaufman]] in the late 1970s.<ref>Laurie Anderson, ''Stories from the Nerve Bible''.</ref>