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Generative Art Friday

In the 1970’s, composer Laurie Spiegel helped develop new and revolutionary electronic music systems at Bell Labs and elsewhere.  By designing such programs as Music Mouse, with built-in knowledge of chord and scale convention and stylistic constraints, she focused on using computers and digital technology to free artists for real time improvisations, and simultaneously stressed the importance of process over product.  Her 1980 albumn Expanding Universe was recently rereleased.