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Oldest Computer Music Unveiled
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.
A recording of a song about sheep? Sounds to me like they might be trying to fleece the masses.
Except for that the clip isn't Baa Baa Black Sheep..
It reminds me of an album called IBM 1401, A User's Manual by Jóhann Jóhannsson. It is simple computer music generated 30 years ago that has been orchestrated.
"I bless every day that I continue to live, for every day is pure profit."
No the computer is in England it starts out with "God Save The Queen". Which is the original title of the music.
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What is the statue of limitations before the RIAA can no longer try to cash in on those early IP pirates?
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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.
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Just like Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and The Alphabet song are the same.
if you steal from one source, that is plagiarism, if you steal from many, well, that's just research.
you just blew my mind man.
11 was a racehorse
12 was 12
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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.
All sources point to this as the oldest computer music:
The world's oldest RIAA subpoena.
If you leave out all the notes, it is also John Cage's 4'33".
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
My father remembers as a schoolboy around then visiting the laboratory at Manchester, and asking how it made noises. IIRC he says they were actively loading the system clock and making it slow down or speed up depending on how much work it was doing driving circuit elements.
God country tis F G, have you any wool...
Make it stop!
The nice thing about it though was it served as an excellent diagnostic aid. When the full system was working properly it would make a very complex sound, a bit like a dishwasher or something, but when it hit a bug and hung you'd get a single tone (a bit like those "beep beep beeeeeeep" monitors in hospitals). And you could tell when things were starting to go wrong, a bit like listening to a car engine. Quite cool, I sometimes miss being able to "listen" to complex programs executing.
Daisy, Daisy,
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all for the love of you.
... that it was Christopher Strachey who wrote the music programs? That's the guy who invented CPL and he was also involved with BCPL, the ancestor of C. He wrote the book "BCPL - The Language and Its Compiler" together with Martin Richards. That book was my introduction into compiler design! :-)
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Looks more like a busy NetHack situation to me :P
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