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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.

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

    What's this obsession of sound pioneers with sheep? Didn't Edison say "Mary had a little lamb"?