Laurie Spiegel
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Biography
Laurie Spiegel, born September 20, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, is an American composer known for her electronic music compositions. She began composing at age 20 after teaching herself Western music notation. Spiegel attended Shimer College and later studied composition under Jacob Druckman, Vincent Persichetti, and Hall Overton at the Juilliard School from 1969 to 1972. Spiegel's career is marked by her use of algorithmic composition techniques and collaborations with various digital systems including Bell Labs' GROOVE system. Her piece "Sediment" was included in the 2012 film The Hunger Games. She developed Music Mouse, an "intelligent instrument" for Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari computers, which she used to compose works like "Cavis Muris" (1986) and "Three Sonic Spaces" (1989). Spiegel's musical interpretation of Johannes Kepler's Harmonices Mundi appeared on the "Sounds of Earth" section of the Voyager Golden Record.
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- Music for Dance II
- Dirge I
- The Hollows
- Music for Dance I
- Dirge II
- Wandering in Our Times
- Appalachian Grove III
- Appalachian Grove IÂ
- Drums
- I
- III
- II
- Pentachrome
- Patchwork
- Old_Wave
- Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds
- The Orient Express
- Clockworks
- The Unquestioned Answer
- Drums&Drums&Drums by Laurie Spiegel
- From A Harmonic Algorithm
- Strand Of Life (Viroid)
- Passage
- Soundtrack for Sandin
