Laurie Spiegel - Waveshaper TV Ep.6 (Part 1 of 3: Bell Labs)

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Filmed November 2017, the first of a 3-part series. Laurie Spiegel recounts her years working as an in-house composer, developer, and programmer at Bell Labs. A 50-minute edit of our interview with Laurie is available exclusively to members of Waveshaper TV on Patreon.
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[@isabellam1936]

She is such a legend and a true master.

[@leepinlepin]

I discovered laurie through a 90s educational movie called Tornadoes The Entity... Tornadoes and Laurie Spiegel are a strange, trippy and unique combination.

[@NicleT]

Thank you so much for this document. She’s still a huge inspiration for generations.

[@jimmy_jamesjams_a_lot4171]

The significance of the moments that Laurie is describing from her memories are so monumental and so important in not just technological history and digital history and even industrial history, but in this present modern World. We have Laurie to thank along with many more great scientists. Our modern times, and the overall culture of a globally interconnected and so readily informed World wouldn’t be at all what it is today if it weren’t for their efforts. So the ‘overload of decisions’ which Laurie herself mentions in interviews is in a huge way a component that has grown from her previous endeavors. Please don’t grow sorrowful for it, Laurie! We couldn’t exist without decisions coming and scaring us straight. Today our very ‘humanity’ is so much a whole lineage and culmination of these smaller efforts extending back to the first integrated circuits and microchips, and I don’t think the World has nor ever will again tie so many lives together. THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS!

[@HomespunWisdom]

2:46 "...Nobody is a better test for a real time interactive digital system than a musician, and we put out more kinds of information and more different ways than just about any other kind of user you could come up with"

[@jackieweltman1760]

Deeply appreciate!

[@costasaroniadis3376]

What a women !!! I love her music she is.one of my favourite !!!

[@isoldeisobelle552]

I still, on occasion, use Laurie's Music Mouse software on my old and battered Atari STE (.. it can also be ported over to PC using the Steem emulator.) The recent expanded vinyl issues of The Expanding Universe and Unseen Worlds on the Unseen Worlds label sound superb.

[@automaticgainsay]

This is just fantastic, guys!

[@WaveshaperMedia]

Thank you Marc - much appreciated! (forthcoming Parts 2 & 3 are even better IMO...!)

[@alexandermathar7780]

Laurie, you should have joined Tangerine Dream!

[@albertopicciau9934]

One of my biggest inspirations

[@VCVRackIdeas]

amazing!

[@escolaeb13a]

Just getting know her music! Amazing stuff.

[@WiredSpaceWizard]

Awesome!

[@rondelalexandre8987]

Great!

[@moket808]

superb !! thanks a lot

[@cmboling]

Truly amazing! 👌🏼

[@City2x]

Tha k you for posting this 🙏🏾

[@a100user]

Fantastic

[@skeletonarchives9321]

very great job..! Waveshapers

[@kevingrosskonsequentfilm7535]

SWEET !

[@my4trackmachine]

This is pretty rad

[@Alex-zp5ok]

Thanks

[@MrLuisAnti]

genialísimo!

[@0e0]

gotta see the whole thing..gonna subscribe and join

[@WaveshaperMedia]

Thank you 0e0 - you won't be disappointed!

[@HomespunWisdom]

8:07 "...That the computer was the next generation's version of LSD and the surest path to enlightenment"

[@alvieteal4980]

I knew her name sounded familiar. She’s frickn awesome

[@ISHI6I]

This is beautiful… I was born way too late.

[@p6v665]

youre currently living in the golden age of neo psych with bands like king gizzard, psychedelic porn crumpets, thee oh sees, wand, tame impala, etc. be grateful youre alive

[@coadmiller5010]

Re: Isabella-- you are so right!... She's brilliant!..

[@electronicgarden3259]

❤

[@rossturcotte419]

✨

[@liamalepta8003]

Great Interview. Thank you for your work with synthesizers and all your albums to inspire us synthists to come. Click my OWL, for what has become of electronic music.

[@sync0x]

Ceee!

[@christoroppolo8742]

Female synth pioneer .peace Christo 👽🐕🎶🛸

[@nickelmouse451]

Synth pioneer generally

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

Man. I would love for someone to make a VST out of that Bell Labs "Alles" system. I'm actually surprised that no one has.

[@cubdukat]

That would certainly be interesting. They did, however, make an UVI instrument out of the Synergy, although it's actually not additive synthesis but rather sampled sounds. I would really like to see a true additive version of the Bell synth as a VST, or even a GDS in software. Today's computers have more than enough power to do it.

[@prosperlost4046]

Disque nouveau du Solvent, s'il vous plait.

[@hughmcpeake1045]

All my fave American creatives are called Laurie super.😶

[@johnmiles5036]

Was thinking the same thing!

[@fixfaxerify]

[@wordsisnukes]

a computer science programmer, for music!

[@ujulspins]

Great!