Laurie Spiegel Playing 1977 Bell Labs Hal Alles Synth

[Kreepman]

hey there's no sound..

[keguribap]

Fabtastique!

[Zentrpoint]

@lordoid lol 

[happygamestvfun1]

what hte fuck is bell lebs?

[SkyArt2020]

So nice to catch up with you and your wonderful music. pcrown@surgery.arizona.edu

[takenae]

A Laurie poem written in Dennis Ritchie prose, with synthetic Chowning's voice in a full Alles body ... or something like that :) ... ... the equipment specs are incredible!, 1400 ICs! Wow! I can imagine armies of 74LS, OP-AMPs and ADCs DACs 1496s etc etc etc ... I think it is like the father of the Yamaha DX7 ...

[loafdapesholmes]

ALRIGHT STUPID

[NotBornEveryMinute]

From time to time, I click on this, to enjoy lovely Laurie's inspirational musical composition and computer programming skills! I see that Youtube has had a glitch, and now I should click the response, which I find is a copy of the original post. Thanks, Laurie!

And, I see we have been joined by a BLACK-HOLE LOAF; A LOAF OF INFINITE DENSITY! RETREAT TO YOUR PLACE UNDER THE BRIDGE, LOAF!

[loafdapesholmes]

you cock in shining armour

[MusicMouse]

When you insult me in public by calling me stupid I have every right to reply if I want. You started the interaction, not me. Please DO NOT reply again.

[loafdapesholmes]

Not you again STUPID you started this thing off by putting clips with no audio on. Stop hastling me okay? STUPID!!!

[MusicMouse]

You didn't read the explanation below. When this clip, which worked fine, was corrupted by YouTube's software encoding error it already had about 28,000 view and lots of comments.YouTube said they'd eventually restore it from their backup so I left it up waiting for and for the many comments to stay on line, but I uploaded a fresh copy that works fine that you can under "Video Responses". Click on it if you want to hear it. And again, there is no reason to be insulting.

[loafdapesholmes]

THANKS FOR NOTHING STUPID

[MusicMouse]

How many times do I have to post that I'm leaving this copy, corrupted by an encoding error by YouTube, online because I want to preserve the comments but to watch and to hear it YOU HAVE TO WATCH THE REUPLOADED COPY I POSTED AS A VIDEO RESPONSE? There is no reason to be yelling inssults

[loafdapesholmes]

please read my reply!!!!!!!

[Zentrpoint]

@MusicMouse well my main reason was to get calm again and yelling insults realy worked thanks :)

[domokid]

@MusicMouse JUST DELETE THE VIDEO THEN

[cisco9x]

My hearing has gone

[MusicMouse]

Yes - this vid does not play. Encoding error is what they told me and that they're retriving it from backup.. Please click on the re-uploaded copy posted as Video Responses (1) here. That one plays ok.

[therickstah]

this probably sounds better on drugs

[MusicMouse]

I'm told this video is "a victim of a re-encoding error". The audio is missing and the video is messed up too.

Patience. They are supposedly looking for a backup.

Much thanks for all the great comments! They do help keep me going.

- Laurie

[ebbixx]

More likely a totally technical re-encoding glitch (they've been happening a lot lately).

If it had been muted for copyright reasons, you should have gotten a notice and seen a copyright mark against your account, and been given a chance to file a DMCA counterclaim.

Unless the later commercial recording was on a WMG label, in which case YouTube *might* have shortcircuited the process in their haste to pull down all WMG recordings, hoping no one would notice.

[layersoftheonion]

the sound is MIA.

[jtouil]

what happened to the sound?

[gurusaguru]

Genius way ahead of its time.

[rodolphesimon]

wow, heavy duty industrial stuff. The real thing.

[wetdragoon]

Marvellous ! beautiful piece of music, and maybe the best sounding digital synth ;)

[polly6polly]

Laurie, you are an inspiration. Thank you so much for posting this. :-) beautiful music.

[giddygavin]

What an awesome clip-so inspirational!

[uklittleguy]

This is a fascinating clip, wonderful music!

Thanks for sharing it with us.

5 Stars *****

[buchla300]

She made some beautiful music.. and what a cool synth!

[ppaul3]

Hi Laurie. Paul here in Illinlois. I hope you are doing well !!. That one album I did called THE PROPERTY OF WATER using your Music Mouse program got picked up by Sirius, XM, Music Choice, and all the satellites. Folks seem to love your Mousie

paul adams

[JohnLRice]

Laurie,

I was never really aware of you until today! (although I had heard of Music Mouse before since I was an Amiga user for many years). You are truely an amazing woman! I can't say that I can think of anyone else that has such an exceptional combination of beauty, intellegence and creativity.

Thank you for sharing your work!

PS - your picture "P1040392 We're not the migrating type" goes well with tthis peice of music! ;-)

[Qiwolf]

Wendy Carlos? Wait a minute...

[Staralfurz]

maybe she IS an alien... george noory should have her on as a guest!

[Qiwolf]

I think it's funny that almost everyone in the synth community listens to Coast to Coast AM. WUT UP WIT DAT!?

[Staralfurz]

hahaha. coast to coast am listeners are a coll group of peeps

[Staralfurz]

cool*

[eximod]

Such beautiful sound! And she actually programmed it in C to do what it did! What a great experience it must have been to be involved in a project like that in 1977!

[fatherfocus]

la kago esa wea sera mi tesis

[poorinreign]

Excellent! Thank you for this gem!

[MasterPerotinus]

So cool! Thanks for uploading this!

[MasterPerotinus]

reminds me of isao tomita

[nukebass]

Yeah, very similar indeed!

[squamam]

where can i get one ??  ;-) only one built ??

[myleftnutts]

Only 1 built ! and in 1977 it cost $200.000. however their

were 2 commercial versions of this,the "Greatest Digital Synth" of all time. they were the "GDS" and the "Synergy1 and 2".

[mikejordan88]

Aliens would respect this music.

[nukebass]

I think the technology to built this stuff in 1977 was stolen from aliens.

[Jauly]

very good! at this time, most of the lab musicians were not uninspired wannabes on a laptop messing around. she seemed exactly to know what she is doing, and you can feel it.

[Vincent6AM]

Nice one.

[Deelhs]

Me being having a soft spot of digital synths, I consider this video favorited.

[copetoncito]

ahhhhh estos primeros tiempos de la musica electronica en los 70`s

[lordoid]

I have never heard anything about this synth. Wow...thanks a lot. It sounds way better than it looks ;) But I like the huge faders! And the playing is beautifull.

[lesingemonotone]

Fantastic stuff! Sounds a bit similar till the RMI harmonic synthesizers...

[lesscunning]

this fucking shit is awesome.

[vonhaulshoven]

super!

[synthesizerman]

Cool

[pepemogt]

very inspirational!

[MuzikJunkyAES]

Oh, Laurie, how I wish you would record more! Peace.

[Lectrosoul]

Wopper..

Peace

R.

[AZERTYoscar]

Great video! Thanks!!!

[LFORSK]

perfect.

[glennwinstanley]

I 'm not on Earth anymore......10/10

[cmangy]

This is about as gangster as it comes.  Totally hot awesome

[donniemartin]

suuuuuuuuperb

[wurlybird9]

chilling, just great, the music alone, but WONDERFUL to have access to videos of this stuff, which was created in the days before the ubiquity of home video playback devices....

[lemuelbecc]

Enthralling

[aschrock]

Thanks for posting this video. Laurie is an amazing and underrated early electronic musician.

[cinematronic]

Laurie, you rock. That piece is well atmospheric indeed, and what a fantastic synth. So much nicer-sounding than most of the glitzy mass-produced digital stuff that followed in the 80s.

[SterlingSolomon]

Must be using a VCO and a Carrier Signal here.

[shleedance]

It doesn't use VCOs, as it's digital. You should read the description more carefuly. ;)

[seablue]

awesome! laurie spiegel is great.. :)

[ournationalspace]

Excellent! Thanks for posting this :-)