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Laurie Mayer is a composer, vocalist, pianist, recording artist. She and William Orbit began their music careers with the group Torch Song. They produced two albums, Wish Thing and Ecstasy. They had a dance chart hit, Prepare to Energize, in 1983. In the 90's they were joined by rock musician and producer Rico Conning and released the album Toward the Unknown Region. She has released a solo project this year, Black Lining, on the Theomorph label. The album was co-produced with Rico Conning and contains tracks mixed by William Orbit. One of her recent compositions with William Orbit, Purdy, was...

Laurie Spiegel (1945), a lute and banjo player by training, is a Chicago-born and New York-based composer of computer music who reacted to the futurism and dadaism of the early pioneers by developing an original aesthetic borrowed from folk music, creating relatively atmospheric and melodic music via arcane mathematical algorithms. Kepler's Harmony of the Worlds, Spiegel's realization of Johannes Kepler's book "Harmonices Mundi" was chosen for the opening track on the "Sounds of Earth" section of the golden record placed on board the Voyager spacecraft in 1977. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contents_of_the_Voyager_Golden_Record#Sounds .

Laurie Zeluck Carter (1957- 2006) With a prodigious talent and plucky spirit, Laurie Zeluck Carter single-handedly crafted her career and took her place in the music world. Laurie Z., as she was known professionally, was slim, sexy, and smooth, but also smart, savvy, and self-possessed. She was uncommonly poised, even as a teenager, with a Mona Lisa smile and a quiet twinkle in her eye. At four-years-old, Laurie started piano lessons and fell in love with playing. At five, she performed before a school assembly of several hundred people; she never blinked and never looked back. Soon after that, her...