MUSIC

Dither: Plays Laurie Spiegel: The Expanding Universe / Leila Bourdreuil

SATURDAY, JULY 22, 2023
7:00 PM

Public Records
233 Butler Street, Gowanus, Brooklyn

$25.75
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Musician (Juilliard)/programmer (Bell Labs) Laurie Spiegel produced a bunch of spectacular electronic music in the late ‘70s/early ‘80s (this was back in the days when computers took up whole rooms), before abandoning music altogether (SPOILER: she came back) for programming. I won’t say her 1980 album The Expanding Universe is her best, but it’s my favorite (especially in its expanded edition): spacy, playful, both cosmic and earthbound. Tonight the fantastic guitar quartet Dither plays music from it — with the participation of Spiegel herself (and boy is Public Records’s fabulous sound system gonna strut!). Important. Opener Leila Bordreuil, sonic explorer and cellist, is icing on the cake.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT: Café Mars, with its Italian in space, is the only place to go from this.