Laurie Spiegel

American composer

Laurie Spiegel (born September 20, 1945) is an American composer. She has worked at Bell Laboratories, 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 "Sounds of Earth" section of the Voyager Golden Record. Her 1972 piece "Sediment" was included in the 2012 film The Hunger Games.

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

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Works

A Folk Study
A Harmonic Algorithm
Appalachian Grove I
Appalachian Grove II
Appalachian Grove III
Clockworks
Data and Process
Data and Process: I. Strand of Life ("Viroid")
Data and Process: II. From a Harmonic Algorithm
Dirge I
Dirge II
Drums
East River Dawn
Finding Voice
Four Short Visits to Different Worlds
Four Short Visits to Different Worlds: A Garden
Four Short Visits to Different Worlds: Crying Tone
Four Short Visits to Different Worlds: Mines
Four Short Visits to Different Worlds: Swells
Hall of Mirrors
Harmonices Mundi
Immersion
Improvisation on a "Concerto Generator"
Kepler’s Harmony of the Worlds
Music for Dance I
Music for Dance II
Old Wave
Passage
Patchwork
Pentachrome
Remembering First Explorations
Riding the Storm
Sediment
Sound Zones
The Expanding Universe
The Hollows
The Orient Express
The Unquestioned Answer
Three Modal Pieces
Three Modal Pieces: A Cosmos
Three Modal Pieces: A Legend
Three Modal Pieces: A Myth
Three Sonic Spaces
Three Sonic Spaces: I
Three Sonic Spaces: II
Three Sonic Spaces: III
Two Archetypes
Two Archetypes: I. Eye of the Needle
Two Archetypes: II. Hurricane's Eye
Two Cyclic Scores
Two Cyclic Scores: No. 1
Two Cyclic Scores: No. 2
Voices Within: A Requiem
Wandering in Our Times