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Laurie Spiegel

Laurie Spiegel

Sound

Biography

Laurie Spiegel 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 also plays the guitar and lute.

Known For

Sisters with Transistors
6.9

Think of early electronic music and you’ll likely see men pushing buttons, knobs, and boundaries. While electronic music is often perceived as a boys' club, the truth is that from the very beginning women have been integral in inventing the devices, techniques and tropes that would define the shape of sound for years to come.

Sisters with Transistors

2021
Infinite Summer
5.8

On a summer break, Mia and her friends try a meditation app that’s somehow related to the operating system of the Tallinn Zoo, changing the body chemistry of its users into something between pollen and cosmic dust. Mia will need to choose between saving her friends or joining them.

Infinite Summer

2025
The Serengeti Rules
7.2

Exploring some of the most remote and spectacular places on Earth, five pioneering scientists make surprising discoveries that flip our understanding of nature on its head, and offer new hope for restoring our world.

The Serengeti Rules

2018
The Kiosk
N/A

At a newsstand, two women file divorce papers so that one of them can start a new chapter in her life, free of fear and violence.

The Kiosk

2023
Distant Nixa
N/A

The film choreographically covers the distance between two women and their mirroring selves, under Laurie Spiegel's soundscape and with the ambiance of VHS video. Their bodies, sometimes two and others four, are always connected with a rope, influenced by white noise retro interference, sound scratches and pauses. They approach each other until they connect and then finally completely disappear, nullifying the distance between them. The reverse movement of these similar bodies-idols aims to compose a dance of the two and the one, our close and more distant self and to reach to the void in between them.

Distant Nixa

2015
Guadalcanal Requiem
7.0

One of Paik’s most overtly political and poignant statements, Guadalcanal Requiem is a performance/documentary collage that confronts history, time, cultural memory and mythology on the site of one of World War II’s most devastating battles.

Guadalcanal Requiem

1977
Narcissicon
N/A

A narrative self-discovery theme done in real time in Art Nouveau style.

Narcissicon

1973
Dissipative Fantasies
N/A

An individual finds that the world that intrudes upon his personal life cannot be escaped, and he turns to the next generation.

Dissipative Fantasies

1986