Electronic and computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel shared this ‘lost’ video interview from 1984.
The interview was taped at Bell Labs, with a brief intro by Max Mathews. In the interview, Spiegel discusses her experiences working with analog synthesizers, computer-aided music, algorithmic music and more.
The video was originally filmed for a documentary, but Spiegel says that most of this had not been previously seen.
You can find out more about Spiegel at her site.
Brilliant musician! If I remember correctly, Carl Sagan put some of her music on the Voyager sound disk.
Doesn’t look like it. See here: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/goldenrec.html. But, if it’s any comfort, anything that was broadcast by radio or TV is heading into the cosmos, someday to be intercepted by some other civilization’s Arecibo or Jodrell Bank in their own attempt at SETI, and then it will be heard.
Pretty sure she’s the intro to the sounds section, http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/spacecraft/sounds.html I think music of the spheres is her piece.
The piece is ‘Harmonices Mundi’. There’s an interesting discussion of Spiegel’s piece here:
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-interstellar-contract
For a second I thought something new had been discovered but then I realized I’d seen it before. It’s been on U2b since 2008.
Great interview! Started out not great, the journo had no idea what she was talking about, but they eventually came up with a common language and interest. Pity about the constant interruptions, I can see why Laurie was feeling do self conscious!
One of the things Laurie said in the first video, that caught my ear “The computer is an amplifier of what I can put out as a human being in sound” absolutely spot on, her enthusiasm even in those early days is inspiring.