Laurie Spiegel

Laurie Spiegel is an American composer born in 1945. 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 is also a guitarist, lutenist and has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.

She worked with Buchla and Electronic Music Laboratories synthesizers and digital systems, including Bell Labs’ GROOVE system (1973–1978), the Bell Labs Digital Synthesizer (1977), the alphaSyntauri synthesizer system for the Apple II computer (1978–1981), and the McLeyvier (1981–1985).