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Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945 in Chicago) is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse. She also plays the guitar and lute.
Spiegel was seen by some as a pioneer of the New York new-music scene. She withdrew from this scene in the early 1980s, believing that its focus had shifted from artistic process to product. While she continues to support herself through software development, Spiegel aims to use technology in music as a means of furthering her art rather than as an end in itself. In her words, "I automate whatever can be automated to be freer to focus on those aspects of music that can't be automated. The challenge is to figure out which is which."
Spiegel's realization of Johannes Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi" was chosen for the opening track on the "Sounds of Earth" section of the golden record placed on board the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. Her piece called "Sediment" was used in the cornucopia scene of the 2012 movie The Hunger Games.
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Popular Songs
- Wandering in Our Times
- Clockworks
- Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds
- The Orient Express
- Dirge, Part I
- Music for Dance, Part I
- Dirge, Part II
- Music for Dance, Part II
- East River Dawn
- A Folk Study
- The Unquestioned Answer
- Appalachian Grove I
- Appalachian Grove II
- The Expanding Universe
- Appalachian Grove III
- Passage
- Strand of Life
- Patchwork
- From a Harmonic Algorithm
- Pentachrome
- Old Wave
- Sound Zones
- Two Archetypes II Hurricane's Eye
- Finding Voice
- Three Sonic Spaces III
- Riding the Storm
- Two Archetypes I Eye the Needle
- The Hollows
- Three Sonic Spaces I
- Three Sonic Spaces II