Laurie Spiegel's Biography
American composer Laurie Spiegel was born in Chicago on September 20, 1945. She has worked at Bell Laboratories and in computer graphics. Primarily known for her groundbreaking compositions and her software "Music Mouse," she also plays the guitar and lute. Spiegel, who attended Shimer College, Brooklyn College, and Oxford University, received a degree in social sciences and went on to study composition with Jacob Druckman and Vincent Persichetti at the Juilliard School. Her early musical experiences were largely self-directed, beginning with the mandolin, guitar, and banjo she had as a child which she learned to play by ear; she taught herself music notation at the age of 20, after which she began writing down her compositions. Though Spiegel was a pioneer of the New York new music scene, she began to withdraw from it in the early 1980s as it began to focus on process over product, as the techniques were being developed over the music itself. Though she has continued to support herself though her software development, Spiegel's aim has been to use technology in music as a means of furthering her art rather than as an end in itself.
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