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Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American composer .

Life

Spiegel played guitar, banjo and mandolin in her youth. After studying social sciences, she studied classical guitar and composition privately in London. She then took lessons in Renaissance and Baroque lute at the Juilliard School of Music and took composition lessons from Jacob Druckman and Vincent Persichetti .

In the 1970s, Spiegel was one of the pioneers of computer music in New York and used algorithms for her compositions. She developed the Music Mouse composition software . Works from this period appeared on the album The Expanding Universe on the Philo label . Spiegel's adaptation of Johannes Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi" ( Music of the Spheres ) is the first track in the "Sound of Earth" section of the Voyager Golden Records , which are on board the space probes launched in 1977 as part of the Voyager program . She later moved away from the New York avant-garde scene. Despite complex compositional structures and the use of modern electronic technology, musical expression is in the foreground in her compositions.

Her composition "Sediment" from 1972 was selected for the soundtrack of the film The Hunger Games - The Hunger Games (2012).

In 2013 she received the SEAMUS Award .

Works (selection)

Compositions

1970 to 1979

  • Passacaglia for classical guitar, 1970
  • A Deploration for flute and guitar or vibraphone, 1971
  • Three Motets in Sixteenth Century Style , 1971
  • Three English Gardens: Afternoon, Evening, and Night for Buchla-Sythzesizer
  • Harmonic Spheres for Buchla-Sythzesizer, 1971
  • Four Movements for classical guitar, 1968–72
  • Sediment for Electrocomp Synthesizer, 1972
  • The Library Of Babel , incidental music for Electrocomp Synthesizer, 1972
  • The Clinic incidental music for Electrocomp Synthesizer, 1973
  • A meditation , electronic music, 1974
  • Appalachian Grove for GROOVE system, 1974
  • War Mime , video soundtrack for Electrocomp synthesizer and musique concrète, 1974
  • Studies For Philharmonia , audio-controlled video (in collaboration with Tom DeWitt , Phil Edelstein et al.), 1974
  • Das Ring , computerized audio and video synthesis (with Bill Etra ), 1975
  • Emma , soundtrack, 1975
  • A Study for Classical Guitar, 1975
  • Waves dance score for nine instruments and tape, 1975
  • Escalante , ballet music, 1977
  • Kepler's "Harmony Of The Planets" , computer music, 1977
  • An Acceleration for GROOVE system (with Kenneth Knowlton ), 1978
  • A Short Canon for classical guitar or piano, 1978

1980 to 1989

  • An album Leaf for piano, 1980
  • Two Nocturnes for electronics and tape, 1980
  • Modes , computer music, 1980
  • The Phantom Wolf , film music for electrocomp synthesizer, lute, guitar, banjo, harmonica and bamboo flute, 1980
  • A Canon for chamber ensemble and computer, 1980
  • Phantoms for chamber ensemble and tape, 1980
  • Unicorn , computer film music, 1982
  • Progression , computer music, 1982
  • Hearing Things for chamber orchestra, 1983
  • Idea Pieces , computer music, 1983
  • Harmonic Rhythms for McLeyvier Synthesizer, 1983
  • Over Time , ballet music for McLeyvier synthesizers, 1984
  • A Cyclic Score for piano, 1984
  • A Stream for Mandolin, 1984
  • Dissipative Fantasies , score for McLeyvier synthesizer, 1986
  • MusicMouse - An Intelligent Instrument interactive generative musical process for PCs, 1985–86
  • MusicMouse Demonstration Music , twelve computer-aided improvisations, 1986
  • Music for Signals , computer ballet music, 1986

1990 to 1999

  • Fantasy on a Theme from Duarte's "English Suite" for classical guitar, 1990
  • Two Archetypes: Hall of Mirrors, Hurricane's Eye , Computermusik, 1990
  • Two Intellectual Interludes (Data and Process): A Strand Of Life ("Viroid"), and From A Harmonic Algorithm , Computermusik, 1990
  • Three Movements for harpsichord, 1990
  • Continuous Transformations , soundtrack for a computer generated film, 1990
  • A Volume of Three Dimensional Julia Sets , music for a computer-generated animation film, 1990
  • A musette for harpsichord, piano or other keyboard instrument, 1990
  • Semper Mutans , video installation, 1994
  • Lift off , electronic music, 1999

From 2000

  • Conversational Paws , 2001
  • New York November 2001 for Banjo, 2001
  • Current Events , Electronic Music, 2002
  • Anon a Mouse for electronically processed animal sounds, 2003
  • Remembering Home , video with electronically edited banjo recordings, 2006
  • A Stream for violin solo, 2007

Singles

  • 2003: Harmonices Mundi - Table Of The Elements

Albums

  • 1980: The Expanding Universe - Philo
  • 1991: Unseen Worlds - Scarlet Records Inc.
  • 2001: Obsolete Systems - Electronic Music Foundation

Web links

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  1. ^ Charles Amirkhanian . "Women in Electronic Music - 1977" . Liner note essay. New World Records .
  2. ↑ Various - Murmurs Of Earth (The Voyager Interstellar Record) at Discogs
  3. ^ Gagné, Nicole V. "Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music" , p. 255
  4. ↑ Interview with Laurie Spiegel on Tokafi
  5. ↑ The Different Computer of Laurie Spiegel ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on radiom @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / radiom.org
personal data
SURNAME Spiegel, Laurie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois