Name: The Expanding Universe - Expanded Version
Brand: Laurie Spiegel

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UW019lp

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Cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2019-01-18

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Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Secre­tly

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

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766008587799

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3 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Laurie Spiegel

Genre US

Modern Composition

Label US

Unseen Worlds

Laurie Spiegel is an American artist born in Chicago on September 20, 1945. She began her musical journey as a teenager, playing various instruments and developing a passion for amateur music making. After earning a degree in social sciences, she returned to music and studied classic guitar, composition, and lute with renowned teachers such as John W. Duarte, Jacob Druckman, and Vincent Persichetti.

Spiegel's fascination with analog synthesizers led her to explore the possibilities of digital computers for compositional control. From 1973-79, she worked at Bell Labs where she wrote interactive compositional software. Later on, she founded New York University's Computer Music Studio and gained recognition in rock music circles for her groundbreaking music software called MusicMouse.

Throughout her career, Laurie Spiegel has been influenced by notable figures like Michael Czajkowski, Hall Overton, Max Mathews, and Emmanuel Ghent who have played significant roles as her mentors. Her innovative approach to music-making continues to inspire artists across genres.

The Expanding Universe is the 1980 debut album by composer and computer music pioneer Laurie Spiegel. The original album is reissued here as a massively expanded 3LP or 2CD set, containing all four original album tracks plus an additional 15 tracks from the same period, nearly all previously unreleased and many making their first appearance on vinyl in this brand new 2018 edition. Since this album's first reissue in 2012, it has gone on to be widely established as a classic of electronic, ambient, and 20th-century classical music. Some of the well-loved works included in this set are Patchwork, the Appalachian Grove series, East River Dawn and Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds, which was included on the Golden Record launched on board the Voyager spacecraft. The pieces comprising The Expanding Universe combine slowly evolving textures with the emotional richness of intricate counterpoint, harmony, and complex rhythms (John Fahey and J. S. Bach are both cited as major influences in the original cover's notes), all built of electronic sounds using the Groove system at Bell Laboratories during the

1970s.3LP - The 3LP vinyl edition was cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering, Berlin.

The Expanding Universe - Expanded Version

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