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The music of the future, yesterday! June 18, 2008

This is pretty cool. Obviously, computer-generated music recorded in 1951 isn’t going to sound amazing, but it’s still interesting to listen to, if only for historical reasons. Really, check out the clip in that story; the Mark I’s version of “In the Mood” is especially fun. The video farther down the page is also hilarious, but sadly it’s just a demonstration of the computer’s math skills, so there’s no music. Man, who would have guessed that one day computers would not only be playing music, but also writing music?