On the cover: Laurie Anderson: More active than ever, the multimedia artist and performer discusses a career marked by hybridity, borderless networks and a new interest in virtual reality. By Emily Bick. Plus: Cecil Taylor: When the revolutionary pianist died in April, jazz lost one of its most uncompromising individualists. Author, photographer and historian Val Wilmer recalls their encounters. Senyawa: Javanese musicians and instrument makers Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi fuse metal with trance to create overwhelming fields of sound. By David Novak. Once Upon A Time In Paris: In the 1960s and 70s Gérard and Odile Terronès were instrumental in laying the groundwork for the new thing in the French capital. By Pierre Crépon. Also in this issue: Proc Fiskal, Tansy Davies, Rodrigo Tavares, Sarah Hennies, Global Ear in Veracruz, Invisible Jukebox with The Storm Bugs, Tashi Dorji chooses The Inner Sleeve, an Epiphany by Carl Stone, plus the usual mass of albums, books, and shows reviewed, and much more.