1951: the first recording ever of music performed on a computer. A forskarslag from New Zealand has been working for several years to restore the recording. Now their job is finished.
the sound recording from 1951 originally made by the BBC. The music – including the british national anthem, “Bää bää vita lamm” and Glenn Millers hit “In the mood” – played on a computer created by cryptologist Alan Turing. The programming of the computer was the british schoolteacher and pianist Christopher Moore.
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Acetatskivan recording has long been in poor condition in order to be able to give a fair idea of how datormusiken sounded. Researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand has therefore been working for several years to clean and renovate the recording.
the Results of their work are now going to hear in the recording below.
"It was a beautiful moment when for the first time we could hear the real sound from the Turing’s computer. Turing’s pioneering work to transform a computer into a musical instrument in the late 1940s has been largely forgotten", the researchers write, Jack Copeland, and Jason Long in a press release.
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