Ned Lagin was born on March 17,1948 and is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.
16 Facts About Ned Lagin
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Ned Lagin is known for his electronic music composition Seastones, for performing with the Grateful Dead, and for his photography and art.
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Ned Lagin was born in New York City and raised on Long Island in Roslyn Heights, New York.
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Ned Lagin started photography with a Kodak Baby Brownie Special at the age of five, and piano lessons and science, natural history, and electronic projects at the age of six.
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Ned Lagin attended the Wheatley School in Old Westbury, New York, was awarded two National Science Foundation Scholarships, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the intention of becoming an astronaut.
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Ned Lagin received a degree in molecular biology and humanities from MIT in 1971, where he studied with John Harbison, Gregory Tucker, David Epstein, Noam Chomsky, Gian-Carlo Rota, Salvador Luria, and Jerome Lettvin.
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Ned Lagin was deeply influenced by the jazz world in New York City, particularly pianist Bill Evans, whom he met in Boston and saw perform many times in New York and Boston in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Ned Lagin completed a symphony, a string quartet, jazz big band pieces, and electronic pieces before dropping out and permanently relocating to Marin County in the Bay Area.
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In early 1970, Ned Lagin initiated a correspondence with Jerry Garcia after seeing the Grateful Dead at the Boston Tea Party in 1969.
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From 1970 to 1975, Ned Lagin contributed Hammond B3 organ, electric piano, and clavichord to material of his choice at several Grateful Dead concerts.
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Some sets included Jerry Garcia playing guitar filtered through effects processors and Bill Kreutzmann on drums; these sets occasionally segued into the final Grateful Dead set, with Ned Lagin performing with the Dead, including an appearance in The Grateful Dead Movie.
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In 1975 Ned Lagin released Seastones, a quadraphonic album of electronic music on Round Records and then United Artists Records.
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Ned Lagin began photography at the age of five, first with a Baby Brownie camera, and subsequently with other small format cameras.
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Additionally, Ned Lagin has written a collection of writings titled Notes about art, metaphysics, natural history, photography, pictures and "the natural history of picture world".
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On Cat Dreams, Ned Lagin plays electric piano, keyboard synths, Native American flutes, and softsynths: Ableton Live and Max for Live, Reason, Reaktor.
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Ned Lagin has served in Novato, California and Marin County government: Planning Commission, Downtown Plan Committee Chairperson, Economic Development Commission, Tree Task Force, Marin Conservation League Board of Directors, Marin County Flood Control Advisory Board, and chairperson for the Warner Creek Committee.