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Laurie Spiegel

US composer

From: Chicago, United States
Since: 1945–present
Rating: ★ 4 (2 votes)
Releases: 5

About

Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer and software engineer. She has worked at Bell Labs and in computer graphics, and is known primarily for her electronic music compositions and her algorithmic composition software Music Mouse. She is also a guitarist and lutenist.

Spiegel's musical interpretation of Johannes Kepler's Harmonice Mundi appeared on the "Sounds of Earth" section of the Voyager Golden Record. Her 1972 piece "Sediment" was included in the 2012 film The Hunger Games.
In 2019, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.

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