RFI: Laurie Spiegel

Please to read:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/09/an-electronic-music-classic-reborn.html?printable=true¤tPage=all

I think Unseen Worlds is more suited to the task, as I represent a currently terribly slow and inefficient record label.

reissue of the year

additional packaging is incredible, the bell labs punch cards with her ballpen sketches on them & the fortran code & the sitar leaning up against her electrocomp

when all I had was an old scratchy vinyl copy of this, I preferred the range & sonic variety on her other records, especially Unseen Worlds, but now that this has been cleanly remastered, I've been listening to it constantly -- it is so simple and elegant -- and the bonus material helps with the immersion, now with two discs it lasts long enough that you don't ever quite burn out, it's always changing just enough to stay ahead of you, like a continuous stream

annoyingly, my copy ordered from them isn't here yet and it's now available via the usual sources.

...ditto...

They sent me an email yesterday with a link to download everything, apologizing for delays on the vinyl.

actually, leaving work i noticed it was on the desk of reception downstairs (different company but they get all the mail for the building). but it was late and the receptionist had left.

Obsolete Systems, btw, still looks available here:

http://www.cdemusic.org/Laurie-Spiegelbr-iObsolete-Systems-i-p697.html

for the princely sum of $8.

another couple here: http://www.cdemusic.org/search=Spiegel/

I'm talking with her today for a follow-up interview, if anyone has any q's.

I already did a long interview with her in NYC, which I just transcribed (10,000 words!) But now there will be more.

I'd love to know more about the pictures she's made

Such a great album (expanding universe). I was walking through the fish packing district today with this on my headphones, low sun in my eyes and everything felt perfect. I was completely transported.

Yep, I think I saw this described as a brain burner, and it is. It works as a soundtrack to the city, bringing out the patterns and geometry of the environment and it works as a rural soundtrack, because it is weirdly organic in places, but in spite of that there's a sensory dissonance. Christ, listen to me. Basically: yep, great album, great outdoor album.

I finally picked Expanding Universe and Obsolete systems up a couple weeks ago, thanks thread!

Spectacular! Where to begin, even. So many amazing beloved hallmarks of 60s-80s culture woven into this framework for context. Introducing bell labs by referencing The President's Analyst, Michael Czajkowski showing Laurie her first Buchla, shapenote singing, choicest philosophical quotes from her online text archive, great ending, standing applause

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9002-laurie-spiegel/

its an amazing piece.

Quite so, a stellar celebration.

along with a host of important female composers like Alice Shields, Daria Semegen, Pril Smiley, Maggi Payne, Ruth Anderson, Priscilla McLean, and more.

RFI please

>RFI please

Come anticipate Johann Merrich's "Le Pioniere Della Musica Elettronica," about female electronic composers

ah, thank you. that was a great article, then about halfway through I was like oh, Reynolds, duh.

So much bullshit on downtown vs uptown "establishment"! That's rich coming from Spiegel, who was well-funded by Bell to make the music she wanted. Had to laugh at Reynolds using her paper on retro -- which from the quote seems like a thin bit of theory/cultural commentary -- to then promote his book. Pathetic.

Really liked her bits on her research into pre-civil war ("shapenote" music). Lots to enjoy as a whole but leaves a bad taste.

sourpuss!

i thought it was put together well. told a compelling story about work. educated me. voila, hype your book all you want.

Its certainly compelling. Varese thought about making machine music until depression set in, he had nothing to work with until v late in his own life. People might say it would've been marvellous if he was starting out now or when Laurel did but that article makes it clear the problems he would have had.

A few made it work. Others -- most notably Helmut Lachenmann -- took the experience of makng electronics, hated it, but used it to enrich the palette of instrumental music.

Just don't need yet another piece thrashing post-Webern music to justify this. Beause I like Laurie's music I read it as nervousness about its own merits, like it must be validated by a struggle agaist an establishment. The struggle was elsewhere, but they perservered, took it out there and carved ther own space.

I think there is a piece to be written about how this stuff would perhaps compare with what was coming out of IRCAM.

Fuck: whatever ITunes cards I get for Xmas will be blown on this woman's music

there is some sort of collaboration in the works with caribou / daphni apparently.

ugh

>:[

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Caribou ‏@caribouband
JIAOLONG006 features a previous Jiaolong artist together with a pioneer of electronic music. Any guesses?

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Caribou ‏@caribouband
FANTASTIC feature on @LaurieSpiegel who has been a great inspiration to me over the years - http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9002-laurie-spiegel/ …

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Caribou ‏@caribouband
[hint, hint...]

So I'm guessing this'll be a 12". Looking at jialong's discogs it could indeed be Daphni, but technically speaking also Jeremy Greenspan or Les Sins (Toro Y Moi project) could be involved.

gr8 piece on a brilliant mind (smh @ the jungle reference)

this is a really good read...

http://sexmagazine.us/articles/laurie-spiegel/1

she's so cool!

countdown to Laurel Halo collab on RVNG.

Thanks for that link, CB.

I keep wanting to use the display name 'Laurie Smeagol' but a) it's probably not as funny as I think it is, b) not sure many people would get it, and c) I don't really do wacky display name changes.

that's one dodgy-looking url for that interview...

> it's probably not as funny as I think it is

i laughed

i laughed
Smeagol is always funny

i laughed

i laughed

Aw, you guys.

I lold

big piece by me in frieze:

http://blog.frieze.com/an-interview-with-laurie-spiegel/

Hey geeta, I sent you an email to the address you give on theoriginalsoundtrack.com, with a link to download something I thought might interest you. Just a heads up in case you don't normally check that.

Sorry, no Laurie Spiegel content.

just saw it! thanks!!

best article yet and that is saying something. placing cultural context is one thing, but emotional context is another

nice youtube of a guy who got Music Mouse running on an Atari ST emulator on his Windows machine, patched in through Reason as his synth. His improvisations are a lot more traditional than anything Spiegel herself released but it's nice to get a sense of the software by seeing the GUI in action

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8083/8306890717_56e6697742.jpg

Okay bought "The Expanding Universe," will listen and report back

Did this get linked somewhere? Jeremy Greenspan's reworking of Drums:

http://www.spin.com/blogs/junior-boys-jeremy-greenspan-reworks-laurie-spiegels-proto-techno-drums

http://www.thewire.co.uk/news/22473/laurie-spiegel-designs-new-wiret-shirt

Finally caved and bought the LP version of this. Very pleased. A question, though - the CD has a really big, detailed booklet with diagrams and photos. The LP doesn't? Or is it just my copy that lacks an insert?

Sometimes, if I buy digital/Vinyl I email the record label and ask for a .pdf of the inlay card if its got loads of detail.

some have been great - RVNG.itl

some have been awful - Gronland records

I try to include the email invoice of the digital or a photo of me holding the record....

it kills me when the reviews talk of the amazing stuff in the liner notes and the vinyl has a white inner sleeve and nothing else..