{"id":52,"date":"2026-02-22T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=52"},"modified":"2026-02-22T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:30:00","slug":"you-need-to-listen-to-laurie-spiegels-masterpiece-of-early-ambient-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"You need to listen to Laurie Spiegel\u2019s masterpiece of early ambient music"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The cover of Laurie Spiegel\u2019s The Expanding Universe super imposed on a desaturated copy of itself.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: Laurie Spiegel\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/02\/the-expanding-universe.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">I recently had the pleasure of interviewing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/report\/879819\/laurie-spiegel-is-celebrating-40-of-music-mouse-with-a-modern-revival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laurie Spiegel<\/a> for the site. As preparation for the interview, I spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks revisiting Spiegel&#8217;s records, most notably <a href=\"https:\/\/lauriespiegel.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-expanding-universe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Expanding Universe<\/em><\/a>, her 1980 masterpiece that blends synth experimentalism with early examples of what would eventually be called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22175193\/ambient-music-2020-pandemic-quarantine-at-home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ambient music<\/a>, and algorithmic composition techniques. It&#8217;s a marvel that sounds both nostalgic and cutting-edge at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Tracks like &#8220;Patchwork&#8221; and &#8220;A Folk Study&#8221; dabble in the sort of bouncy arpeggios that beg comparisons to The Who&#8217;s &#8220;Baba O&#8217;Riley,&#8221; while &#8220;Old Wave&#8221; and &#8220;East River Dawn&#8221; conjure <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/871847\/m83-dead-cities-red-seas-lost-ghosts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ea \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/882915\/laurie-spiegel-the-expanding-universe-review-masterpiece-ambient-music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Laurie Spiegel for the site. As preparation for the interview, I spent a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teknologi.news.eraenterprise.id\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}