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Laurie Anderson says watching her show Delusions is a bit like watching a 3-D film.

"Not necessarily that you put glasses on," she told 6 Music. "But it's a visual piece."

Anderson's latest music-theatre performance is a series of stories, billed as a personal meditation on life, language, memory and identity.

"I got very sick of things that were always in rectangles," she explained. "We spend an enormous amount of time looking at films and computer screens."

Anderson says she wanted the audience's eye to be constantly moving around the stage.

"So I thought, what if I can just break up this imagery so that it's on several different surfaces. A couch, a corner, a crumpled piece of paper."

This month Delusions will feature as part of the Brighton Festival, on May 26.

Aung San Suu Kyi is the Guest Director of the arts and culture event this year, so the festival is celebrating themes of freedom and liberty to highlight her passionate plight for peace in Burma.

"I know a little bit about liberty," Anderson told 6 Music. "In terms of political liberty, there's a lot of imagery in Delusions and it includes a lot of political."

Last year saw the release of Anderson's first album since 2001, Homeland. So will fans have to wait just as long for a follow up? The multimedia artist and musician says she's keeping busy.

"I'm working on a book of stories, and a bunch of new music projects and I'm probably going to do this 40 ft film that I did in Rio somewhere else as well, because it was really fun to do."

Listen to Laurie Anderson's interview with Sarah Jane Griffiths below.