Ned Lagin
| Ned Lagin | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 17, 1948 |
| Origin | Roslyn Heights, New York, United States |
| Genres | Electronic, Modern, Avant-garde, Space music, Jazz, Classical |
| Occupation(s) | Artist, Photographer, Scientist, Composer, Keyboardist |
| Instruments | Piano, Electric Piano, Clavichord, Synthesizer, Computer |
| Labels | Round, United Artists, Rykodisc |
| Associated acts | Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia and Friends, Seastones, Ned Lagin and Phil Lesh |
Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.
Lagin is considered a pioneer in the development and use of minicomputers and personal computers in real-time stage and studio music composition and performance.
He is known for his electronic music composition Seastones, for performing with the Grateful Dead, and for his photography and art.
Ned Lagin was born in New York City and raised on Long Island in Roslyn Heights, New York. Growing up, Lagin was influenced by classical and jazz music, and the modern music and art cultures of New York City in the 1960s. He started photography with a Kodak Baby Brownie Special at the age of five, and piano lessons and science, natural history, and electronic projects at the age of six.
He attended the Wheatley School in Old Westbury, New York, was awarded two National Science Foundation Scholarships, and attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with the intention of becoming an astronaut. Lagin received a degree in molecular biology and humanities from MIT in 1971, where he studied with John Harbison, Gregory Tucker, David Epstein, Noam Chomsky, Gian-Carlo Rota, Salvador Luria, and Jerome Lettvin. Chomsky's generative grammar concepts inspired Lagin's thinking about creating generative music forms (1968), and Lettvin connected him to the writings of Norbert Wiener and Warren McCulloch, and more generally to cybernetics. During this period, Lagin also completed jazz coursework at the Berklee School of Music.
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