Laurie Spiegel – Obsolete Systems (2001)
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
https://www.discogs.com/Laurie-Spiege...
Also check out this link, where Spiegel breaks down each of the four sections of the album:
http://retiary.org/ls/obsolete_systems/