gvopedz Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 An essay that dives deep into something about the early days of computer music in the United States - it got its start, quite literally, in the off-hour downtime of the military-industrial complex: https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/automation-divine-early-computer-music-and-the-selling-of-the-cold-war/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rooster_Ties Posted October 17, 2018 Report Share Posted October 17, 2018 (edited) I remember having owned 4 or 5 different 'classical' CD's of computer-composed music, ones that supposedly mimicked specific composers. Most were solo-piano outings (or sounds that mimicked piano), but I seem to remember a string quartet too maybe? My favorite were several examples of Robo-Gershwin, which sounded very much like many of the trappings of Gershwin, but without enough of the "feel". I think(?) what I had were recordings of computer generated 'performances' -- but I always wondered if 'rendered' with human hands, if they wouldn't have sounded a bit more like the real thing. Interesting stuff (though I'll confess the discs didn't survive the great purge of 3,000+ CD's when we moved from KC to DC almost 8 years ago). I'm pretty sure they all came from this series, on Centaur... https://www.discogs.com/label/470272-CDCM-Computer-Music-Series?page=1&genre=All&limit=500 Bunch of them are here too (though not as many)... http://www.centaurrecords.com/store/albums/electro-acoustic.html?limit=all PS: Seems most of this series (from the discogs link) were from the very late 80's and most of the 90's. I would have gotten the ones I found (used) back in the late 90's, after I moved to Kansas City in '94. Edited October 17, 2018 by Rooster_Ties Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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