Big ScienceIn the early 1980s, Laurie Anderson was already respected as a conceptual artist and composer, adept at employing gear both high tech and homemade in her often violin based pieces, and she was a familiar figure in the cross pollinating, Lower Manhattan music visual art performance circles from which Philip Glass and David Byrne also emerged. While working on her now legendary seven hour performance art theater piece United States, Part IIV, she cut