Oldest Computer Music Found
The BBC reports that newly found acetate disks contain what is believed to be the earliest known computer music recordings:
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 [...]
Planet Nerd’s Dan Walmsley talks to experimental composer David Shea about the history of the Doctor Who music and the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
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The New York Times has an interesting article today about the oldest recorded music in the world:
For more than a century, since he captured the spoken words “Mary had a little lamb” on a sheet of tinfoil, Thomas Edison has been considered the father of recorded sound. But researchers say they have unearthed a recording [...]
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This is the official trailer of the upcoming documentary The 8Bit Philosophy, a film about Commodore 64 musicians coming in 2008.
Looks pretty cheesetacular.
The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create ‘new kinds of sounds’. Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from its inception, through its golden age when it was supplying music and effects for cult classics like Doctor Who, Blake’s Seven and Hitchhiker’s Guide To The [...]
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