Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Oldest Computer Music Unveiled

Posted by timothy on from the except-for-accidental-john-cage-bits dept.

drewmoney writes with a cool story from the BBC, which says that "A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music. The article also collects some other very interesting bits of computer history.

6 of 157 comments (clear)

  1. As noted on Hack-A-Day... by 68030 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Except for that the clip isn't Baa Baa Black Sheep..

    1. Re:As noted on Hack-A-Day... by IronMagnus · · Score: 3, Informative

      LTFA (Listen to etc...) The first song starts out as "my country tis of thee" but ends with a lick from Baa Baa Black Sheep... so, though the description could have been better, the computer DOES play the song in question.

  2. Re:Wrong. by arthurpaliden · · Score: 4, Informative

    No the computer is in England it starts out with "God Save The Queen". Which is the original title of the music.

    --
    Undetectable Steganography? Yep, there's an app fo
  3. Re:Wrong. by morgan_greywolf · · Score: 4, Informative

    No the computer is in England it starts out with "God Save The Queen". Which is the original title of the music.
    Gee, I never noticed..."God Save the Queen" and "My Country Tis of Thee" are the same song!

    Do I get a gold star now?
    --
    My blog
  4. Re:Wrong. by Myrddin+Wyllt · · Score: 5, Informative

    No the computer is in England in November 1951 and starts out with "God Save The King." Which is the original title of the music.

    --
    [ ]Half Empty [ ]Half Full [x]Twice as big as it needs to be
  5. Re:Wrong again by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 3, Informative

    At the time (autumn 1951), it would have been "God Save the King."

    --
    Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.