# Laurie Spiegel [wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel) (1945– ) ## Description American composer and programmer who worked in computer music at Bell Laboratories in the 1970s, developing algorithmic composition tools including GROOVE, and later created Music Mouse: An Intelligent Instrument (1986), an early interactive algorithmic-composition software instrument. ## Key Tags #visual-music #bell-labs #computer-animation #sound #tool-builder #feminist ## Essential Works - [The Expanding Universe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel) (1980) - algorithmic electronic-music album made at Bell Labs - [Music Mouse: An Intelligent Instrument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Spiegel) (1986) - interactive software instrument generating harmonized musical structures from simple mouse gestures ## Details Joined Bell Labs' computer music research group in the 1970s, working alongside Emmanuel Ghent and Max Mathews on algorithmic and programmable composition tools, including the GROOVE system. *Music Mouse*, self-published for early Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari computers from 1986, let a player generate harmonized, multi-voice musical structures from simple two-dimensional mouse gestures — an early and influential instance of an intelligent, generative musical instrument. ### Concepts and Theories - [[Music Studies]] - pioneering work in algorithmic and computer-assisted composition ### Creative and Technical Practices - [[Synthesizers]] - her algorithmic and software-instrument work extends the same lineage of programmable, generative sound tools ### Collaborators %% none yet %% ### Institutional Affiliations and Associated Movements - Bell Laboratories - worked in the computer music research group during the 1970s ## References ### Primary Sources Bibliography %% none yet %% ### Secondary Sources Bibliography Gagné, Nicole V. *Soundpieces 2: Interviews with American Composers*. Scarecrow Press, 1993.