The idea that you can make music using nothing but a computer, keyboard, and mouse is so commonplace that it’s barely worth a mention. At least it is now.
There was a time when home computers were a novelty, graphical user interfaces were rudimentary, and the prospect of transforming what was then seen as a functional piece of tech into a fully-fledged musical instrument was mind-blowing. That time was the mid-1980s, and the person pushing the boundaries of what computers could do with music was Laurie Spiegel.
