Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet

A collaboration between American performance artist and composer Laurie Anderson and the American string ensemble Kronos Quartet, best known here for the 2018 album Landfall (Nonesuch), an electroacoustic/neo-classical response to Hurricane Sandy.

Laurie Anderson is an American performance artist, composer and experimental musician known for work bridging performance art and music. Kronos Quartet is an American string quartet founded by David Harrington in 1973, noted for commissioning and performing contemporary works and cross-genre collaborations.

Landfall is a collaboration between Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet that responds to Hurricane Sandy with thirty electroacoustic pieces. The work is described as neo-classical, ambient, and elegiac, combining Anderson's narratives with Kronos's string arrangements. The review frames the album as timely and urgent in relation to climate and political debates.

For:Listeners of experimental, contemporary classical and avant-garde music; fans of Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet; readers interested in art responding to climate events.