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Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.〔(Ned Lagin interview with David Gans on KPFA, February 3, 2001 )〕〔Ned Lagin interview with David Gans, August 2001 in: Gans, David. Conversations with the Dead, The Grateful Dead Interview Book, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2002. pp. 343-389. ISBN 0-306-81099-9〕 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.〔"Mini Helps 'Grateful Dead' Compose Rock", Computerworld, August 13, 1975, page 33〕〔"Dead Go To Computerized Synthesizer", Billboard, September 6, 1975, pp. 19 and 29〕 He is known for his electronic composition ''Seastones'', and performing with the Grateful Dead.〔〔 ==Early years== 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 four, 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 holds a degree in molecular biology and humanities from MIT where he studied with John Harbison, Gregory Tucker, David Epstein, Noam Chomsky, 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 to cybernetics.〔〔 Lagin also completed jazz coursework at the Berklee School of Music. He was deeply influenced by the jazz world in New York City, particularly pianist Bill Evans 〔Relix, Volume 18, No.3, page 31 ("Summer Issue"): Ned Lagin - An Interview with Nick Skidmore ()〕 who he met in Boston and saw perform many times in New York and Boston in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who wrote out some of his tunes for Lagin. Piano teachers included Dean Earl, a Charlie Parker sideman, and he studied jazz improvisation with Lee Konitz.〔 He played piano in the MIT Concert Jazz Band and MIT Jazz Quintet 〔"Collegiate Jazz Festival 1969" program, Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, March 14 and 15, 1969, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana〕 led by Herb Pomeroy, a sideman with Duke Ellington and Stan Getz. The eclectic nature of his musical skills and interests came as a result of the diversity and depth of his early formative influences, which ranged from Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Gustav Mahler, to Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque keyboard and choral music, to Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, to Aaron Copland, Charles Ives and George Gershwin, to Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and modal and free jazz.〔 Musicological studies included the transcription and analysis of Renaissance composers Jacob Obrecht and Johannes Ockeghem, and the philosophical and mystical aspects of music and sound vibration.〔 In 1971, Lagin began graduate study in composition as an Irving Fine Fellow at Brandeis University, where he studied with Josh Rifkin and Seymour Shifrin. He completed a symphony, a string quartet, jazz big band pieces, and electronic pieces before dropping out and permanently relocating to the Bay Area.〔Douglas Kahn, "Between a Bach and a Bard Place: Productive Constraint in Early Computer Arts" in MediaArtHistories, edited by Oliver Grau, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2010. pg. 441. ISBN 978-0-262-07279-3〕〔("Seastones" album description from Rykodisc online catalog )〕 Lagin stopped performing music in public in 1975, and while continuing to compose he has worked in art and photography for over 35 years, first in small, medium, and large (4x5) format film photography, and subsequently in digital media and artist's books. Subjects include sand drawings, nature, nudes, erotica, and self-portraits. His photography and art influences include Ansel Adams, Elliot Porter, Walker Evans, Edward Weston, ''Life'' magazine and ''The World We Live In'', ''National Geographic'', and the rock art of Native Americans, Australian Aboriginals, and prehistoric Europeans.〔 During his professional career in science and engineering R&D (1976-2011) he worked on the earliest home computing technology with an Altair 8800; was a pre-release Apple MacIntosh software seed developer;〔(Macworld, Volume 3, PC World Communications, 1986 )〕 developed real time digital video and image processing systems;〔Ned Lagin: "A New Real-Time Computer-Controlled Digital Video Processor-Synthesizer"; delivered at the National Computer Conference (NCC), New York, NY, 1979.〕 biotechnology and immunology instrumentation; DNA, RNA, and peptide synthesis and sequencing hardware and artificial intelligence software; early wireless network routing systems;〔InfoWorld, Vol. 13, Issue 31, August 5, 1991, p. 8: "Wireless Bridge Connects Macs" ()〕〔Network World, Vol. 8, No. 13, April 1, 1991, p. 9: "People and Positions" ()〕 and consulted in ecological planning, design and habitat restoration including aerial and ecological photography for environmental studies.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ned Lagin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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