This is not the first time I have heard the name Laurie Spiegel. As one of the pioneer artists of synthesized music, her use of music has been influential enough for her name to be among the likes of John Cage. Although hearing her name may not be the biggest surprise, it is more bewildering that her piece from 1972, "Sediment," is featured in the cornucopia scene of The Hunger Games.
Though many may think this is most interesting part of the article, my mind wraps itself more around how she recorded the piece without having being able to use multitrack the synthesizers. She says, "I had to do the mixing with two stereo reel-to-reel decks...while one deck was playing audio while the other deck was recording the other machine." In the nature of recording sounds, each copy of the sound becomes more and more degraded, ultimately altering the music that the audience hears. In experimentation, this is really nothing wrong with this aside from the fact that the sound might not be what the artist had originally wanted.
Original article: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/03/rare-electronic-music-hunger-games/
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