Laurie Spiegel - Obsolete Systems (2001)
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2024
- Laurie Spiegel - Obsolete Systems
A retrospective of Spiegel's 1970s and 80s works created with now-long-obsolete mostly-anolog electronic instruments, produced by EMF Media, the record label of The Electronic Music Foundation, released Sept. 2001
Laurie Spiegel (b. 1945, Chicago) is an American composer. She is known primarily for her algorithmically composed electronic music. Spiegel's best known and most widely used software was Music Mouse-an Intelligent Instrument (1986) for Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari computers. The "intelligent-instrument" designation refers to the program's built-in knowledge of chord and scale convention and stylistic constraints. Automating these processes allows the user to focus on other aspects of the music in real time.
Her realization of Johannes Kepler's "Harmonices Mundi" was also chosen for the opening track on the "Sounds of Earth" section of the golden record placed on board the Voyager spacecraft in 1977.
Tracks
Four Short Visits To Different Worlds
1 Swells 0:00
2 Mines 1:48
3 Crying Tone 4:11
4 A Garden 6:33
5 Improvisation On A "Concerto Generator" 08:50
6 A Harmonic Algorithm 11:46
Three Modal Pieces
7 A Cosmos 14:44
8 A Legend 17:40
9 A Myth 22:18
10 Immersion 28:19
11 Drums 40:13
12 Voices Within: A Requiem 47:00
www.discogs.com/Laurie-Spiege...
Also check out this link, where Spiegel breaks down each of the four sections of the album:
retiary.org/ls/obsolete_systems/ 
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God bless electronics, and Laurie Spiegel!!
1970-80's! Impressive stuff.
Laurie Spiegel... Is brilliant! I consider this modern classical, ambient, space music, for the ages .. Why NASA hired her to produce the first track on the TV"golden record which on the deep space probe Voyager 1, now leaving the solar system, passing the gigantic Oort cloud venturing into deep space. Even if it never encounters an alien race, itwill serve as a time capsule for future humans who venture into deep space themselves.. my Quite an accomplishment at any rate!... Bravo Laurie!...
Thank you!
stupéfiant de beauté sonore artiste majeure de ce siècle merci Madame ! RESPECT
Stunning in its beauty.
amazing
This is so beautiful!! thank you for sharing
If you like this about 30- plus mins. in, I strongly recommend "Marvel" by Martin Rev-- a1986 bonus track from his 1980 solo album.. A lot like this, very atmospheric... Surprising, considering as he was 1/2 the electro punk duo Suicide. But they were consistently good for the 40-some years they were around...
Love this! Thanks for sharing
So about the same time I was a kid in NZ struggling to master the F chord on my first guitar my future Hero of electronica was doing this? I'm glad I'm finally catching up!! So grateful for the posting, everything of Ms. Speigel's is truely inspiring!!
thx 4 d'compilation
no prob!
There’s a wonderful permutation fugue starting around 23min.
Not sure why, but this YT version is pitched a half step up from the original CD (and slightly faster)
well that sucks.
A lot of her stuff by reminds me of "Popcorn" the first all synthesizer radio hit in the seventies... Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" features heavy synthesizer use, and was also a radio hit, but I'm not sure which one came first... Edar's came out in '73.…
nice
Her work reminds me of Kelly Bailey's Portal OST
🌾✨
Tour de force
28:19=Tornadoes The Entity
4.A garden e do 5 ao 9
LOL
Not a leg to stand on, chumpmeister!...
How can a musical instrument be obsolete?
in terms of tech progression
@@joaquinignacio3277 It is completely up to the artist. Music is not science.
@@ParadoxapocalypSatan Music is not science, no, however as a discipline that employs so much tech (specially in these days), it is closely linked to the history of electronic devices. Could've The Beatles made Tomorrow Never Knows in the 40s? Could've DJ Shadow made Endtroducing in the 50s? Could've 100 Gecs be 100 Gecs if they were from the 80s? Try to do an Animal Collective song with gear from the 90s, good luck with that.
I know where are you coming from, you can do music with old equipment, I also believe so, but "outdated" here means that there are simpler/more effective ways now of doing what that machine did.
I could be wrong but seems like majority of electronic musicians during 50s through 70s are women??
The same thing occurred to me a while ago...There is a film called "Transistor Sisters" released this year..You may enjoy it.
It's probably more true to say that we've finally reached a point where there's a much greater appreciation of the role that Spiegel, Derbyshire, Oram, Ciani, Radigue and others made to the electronic music landscape during that period.
@@craigshillabeer3155 Yes probably + A more positive attitude & more opportunities for women in this genre. eg a lesser boys club bias. That was present in the past.
Gender shmender, a bunch of ladies in electronic muzique have transitioned from phallocentrism to gynozealotry.
@@oblomurg My my. What big words you use..Buwch goch gota.
worst synth musician in the world - ALWAYS SOUNDING LIKE A CHEAP TECHNICIAN - MINDLESS EFFORT FOR NOTHING! - Not accidentally, my favorite ARTIST is CONRAD SCHNITZLER.
True.
Does she play like technician or do you listen like a musician?
@@ParadoxapocalypSatan She plays like a non-musician technician. I listen LIKE A NON-TECHNICIAN MUSICIAN-ARTIST.
She was an innovator certainly, but I do wonder whether her influence was positive or negative. There's a fair amount of muzak here. Algorithms for advertisers.
Christos Tsanakas you were probably the only dislike, this kind of music isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but it definitely is creative and interesting to listen to ❤️