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The first recording of computer music was playing at the wrong pitch for decades

In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...
MusicRadar

“They had a new love, new devices also made from metal: bicycles. Cycling was the end of Kraftwerk”: Our classic lost interview with Kraftwerk’s Wolfgang Flür gave rar…

Back in 2007, we caught up with Kraftwerk’s former rhythmic robot, who had much to share about the fraught relationship with ...
news.ucsb.edu

Core textbook on computer music distills ‘vast information space’ in a definitive tutorial

Curtis Roads was barely out of high school in 1970, playing music in the metro area surrounding the University of Illinois, a pioneering center of computer music. He wasn’t a student, but through a ...
The Economist

Spotify’s playlists have altered the music industry in unexpected ways

A few years after Spotify’s founding in 2006, executives commissioned a study. It revealed that many listeners were using the streaming service as background accompaniment to the quotidian activities, ...