12 Facts About Laurie Spiegel

Laurie Spiegel was born on September 20,1945 and is an American composer.

Laurie Spiegel has worked at Bell Laboratories, in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic-music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse.

Laurie Spiegel withdrew from this scene in the early 1980s, believing that its focus had shifted from artistic process to product.

Laurie Spiegel has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

Laurie Spiegel taught herself Western music notation at the age of 20, after which she began writing down her compositions.

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Laurie Spiegel attended Shimer College through the school's early entrance program, which allows students to enter college without having completed high school.

Laurie Spiegel subsequently attended Oxford University, initially through Shimer's Oxford study abroad program, under which students spend a year continuing the Great Books core curriculum in Oxford while taking tutorials from Oxford.

Best known for her use of interactive and algorithmic logic as part of the compositional process, Spiegel worked with Buchla and Electronic Music Laboratories synthesizers and subsequently many early, often experimental and prototype-level music and image generation systems, including GROOVE system, Alles Machine and Max Mathews's RTSked and John R Pierce tunings at Bell Labs, the alphaSyntauri for the Apple II and the McLeyvier.

Laurie Spiegel's best known and most widely used software was Music Mouse—an Intelligent Instrument for Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari computers.

Laurie Spiegel continued to update the program through Macintosh OS 9, and as of 2012, it remained available for purchase or demo download from her Web site.

Laurie Spiegel composed series music for the TV Lab's weekly "VTR—Video and Television Review" and audio special effects for its 2-hour science fiction film The Lathe of Heaven, both under direction of David Loxton.

Laurie Spiegel did much less accompanitive music in the 1980s, during which she focused on creating music software and consulting in the music technology field, as well as additional teaching at Cooper Union and NYU where she established NYUs' first computer music studio.