‘Oldest’ computer music unveiled “I think it’s historically significant,” Paul Doornbusch, a computer music composer and historian at the New Zealand School of Music, told BBC News. “As far as I know it’s the earliest recording of a computer playing music in the world, probably by quite a wide margin.” The previous oldest known recordings were made on an IBM mainframe computer at Bell Labs in the US in 1957, he said. From the BBC: 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 songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester. The recording has been unveiled as part of the 60th Anniversary of “Baby”, the forerunner of all modern computers. The tunes were played on a Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine. (via BBC) i want to see the earliest picture of a person performing the robot on a dancefloor.

‘Oldest’ computer music unveiled

“I think it’s historically significant,” Paul Doornbusch, a computer music composer and historian at the New Zealand School of Music, told BBC News.

“As far as I know it’s the earliest recording of a computer playing music in the world, probably by quite a wide margin.”

The previous oldest known recordings were made on an IBM mainframe computer at Bell Labs in the US in 1957, he said.

From the BBC:

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 songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of Manchester.

The recording has been unveiled as part of the 60th Anniversary of “Baby”, the forerunner of all modern computers.

The tunes were played on a Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine.

(via BBC)

i want to see the earliest picture of a person performing the robot on a dancefloor.