Composer Laurie Spiegel attended Shimer and Brooklyn Colleges, Oxford
University, and the Juilliard School. After a BA in the Social Sciences,
she completed her MA in Music Composition and embarked on a multi-arts
creative career that has included numerous performances and recordings of
her musical works, video and film soundtrack music and audio and visual
special effects, compositions for dance and theater, widely exhibited
computer and hand made visual art, video and interactive computer software
installations, poetry, fiction and dozens of published writings, mostly
about technology and the arts. After several years of instrumental, analog electronic, and tape
composition starting in the late 1960s, Spiegel decided that her creative
visions required the greater power of computers, and she began her
residence at Bell Labs, where she wrote interactive computer software for
both music and image composition from 1973-79. Starting in 1978, she became
active in the design and programing of music systems for newer more
accessible personal computers, most notably her program "Music Mouse - An Intelligent Instrument". She has directed computer and electronic music studios and taught
composition at New York University and Cooper Union, and has received
fellowships and grants from CAPS, ASCAP, Meet-the-Composer, NYFA, the
Experimental Television Lab at WNET, and the Institute for Studies in
American Music. Her realization of Kepler's "Harmony of the Planets" was sent into space as the opening cut of the Voyager Spacecraft's record "Sounds of Earth".
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Some photos from Bell Labs days:
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