Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Researchers Restore First Recording of Computer Music, Made in Alan Turing’s Lab

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via Hyperallergic

Codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing was also responsible for the first recording of computer music. He hadn’t been intending to create a musical machine when he programmed computer-generated notes; they were meant as signals to the user of a complete job or the more troubling “digits overflowing in memory.” Yet the innovation resulted in three tunes that survive on a 12-inch acetate disc from 1951.

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