Probably the most remarkable thing about Laurie Spiegel is that a piece of music she made could be the first sound of human origin to be heard by extraterrestrial lifeforms. If aliens exist, of course. And assuming they have ears.
Spiegel's computer realization of a composition conceived back in the early 17th Century by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler is the opening cut on the Golden Record, a disc that accompanied both Voyager probes on their journey across the solar system and out into the great interstellar beyond in 1977..."
Read the full article on Pitchfork here. Note the EMLs to her right. The track that is floating in outer space? "Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds" performed on the Bell Labs "computer-analog hybrid" below. Don't miss vintage footage of Laurie performing on the system in this post. The track "Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds" was featured on Spiegel's "The Expanding Unniverse" posted here back in October. It was the second to last track. It's fascinating to think the message sent on NASA's Voyager probes opens with a synth.
Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds
video upload by Laurie Spiegel - Topic
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