Sylvia Pengilly

She learned that Lissajous curves could be created with the use of a combined laser and mirror system built by physics professor Richard Peterson.

She built a music studio for the students which included a Moog 55, speakers, mixing board, TASCAM tape deck, and a Zenith computer.

The data is transferred to a computer's receiver through radio frequencies and then converted to MIDI information, later controlling the composition by combining music with graphics that match a performer's brain waves.

Pengilly was an elementary school music teacher for a few years until she pursued a composition degree at Kent State University in 1968.

Pengilly became aware of electronic music while attending the university when she saw the chairman's Moog 55 and she used it to change how a simple waveform sounds.

[1] A 2005 review in Computer Music Journal states that Pengilly's work Patterns of Organic Energy "demonstrates a wide and inventive range of constantly evolving aqueous and kaleidoscopic forms".

[4] A review from the Miami Herald music critic James Roos says, "Sylvia Pengilly's Trio of 1979, though composed in four movements, ranging from Fugue and Lullaby to Scherzo and Epilogue, had a consistently acrid sound and a texture so fragmented it required a conductor to keep violin, viola and piano together, as they pulled in their own directions".