http://www.metafilter.com/tags/lauriespiegel Posts tagged with 'lauriespiegel' at MetaFilter. Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:46:51 -0800 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:46:51 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/123038/Unseen%2DWorlds <blockquote>"<a href="http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9002-laurie-spiegel/">I was sitting</a> with some friends in Woodstock when a telephone call was forwarded to me from someone who claimed to be from NASA, and who wanted to use a piece of my music to contact extraterrestrial life. I said, 'C'mon, if you're for real you better send the request to me through the mail on official NASA letterhead!'"</blockquote>Laurie Spiegel is a <a href="http://sexmagazine.us/articles/laurie-spiegel/1">composer and a humanist software developer</a>. Spiegel began her career at Bell Labs, where she designed <a href="http://retiary.org/ls/btl/ls_btl_art.html">computer art</a> and <a href="http://retiary.org/ls/btl/groove_quick_description.html">music, informed by the concept of informational entropy as a function of time.</a> Spiegel later became a video artist-in-residence at New York's <a href="http://www.howardweinberg.net/progress/tvlab.html">WNET/Thirteen Experimental TV Lab</a>, working alongside <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/88837/domestication-of-the-avant-garde">Bill Viola and Nam June Paik</a>. Spiegel's 1977 composition "The Expanding Universe" was included in the Voyager Spacecraft's <a href="http://xtraordinarium.com/2012/10/25/spiegel/">Golden Record</a>, and was reissued this year to critical acclaim. <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/09/an-electronic-music-classic-reborn.html"> <em>New Yorker</em> review</a> <a href="http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17067-the-expanding-universe/">Pitchfork review</a> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.123038 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:46:51 -0800 computermusic fortran lauriespiegel voyager obscurator