Listen to the world’s first computer music recording
Sep26
If you love dubstep, EDM and other music featuring synthesizers and computer-generated audio, you have computing pioneer Alan Turing to thank. Turing is believed to be behind the world’s first recording of computer-generated music. The BBC had obtained a recording from Turing’s lab in Manchester in northern England some 65 years ago, but the audio, preserved on a single 12-inch acetate disc, was found to be distorted. Professor Jack Copeland of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and composer Jason Long (who happens to a UC alumnus) teamed up to figure out a way to clean up the sound and…
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