Laurie Anderson is an artist whose function defies any quick description. She’s a pioneer of the avant-garde, but as we learned, that isn’t going to start to describe what she generates.  Her function just isn’t offered in galleries. It is experienced by audiences who arrive to see her complete: singing, telling tales, and playing unusual violins of her individual creation.  She won a Grammy for a chamber audio album about Hurricane Sandy and remains a single of America’s most strange and visionary artists. A key exhibition of her function is on exhibit at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.  Females and gentlemen, Laurie Anderson. She’s played electronic drums on…