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CardJoe · 19th Jun 2008, 08:14

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/06...ic-recording/1

The Beeb has unearthed a recording from 1951 featuring the second ever public production of computer generated music, making it the oldest recording currently known.

StephenK · 19th Jun 2008, 09:08

That is so sweet! I'm always amazed at how far we've come in terms of computing power in just a few decades. I started using a C64 about 20 years ago when i was 6 or 7. I remember keying in a huge amount of code from the back of a programming book in order to get the machine to play a tiny and simple tune. Ah those were the days

yakyb · 19th Jun 2008, 09:15

yeah i think we all (over 20 odd years old) used Qbasic to make a song at some point

mclean007 · 19th Jun 2008, 10:01

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BBC finds oldest digital music recording

Slightly misleading title - it isn't a digital recording, it's an analogue recording (or at least it was, it has presumably been digitised now) of music generated by an early digital computer synthesiser. So I guess you could say its a "digital music" recording, but it isn't a digital "music recording" if you get me.

Anyway, impressive just in terms of seeing progress in <60 yrs.

Gareth Halfacree · 19th Jun 2008, 10:34

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Originally Posted by mclean007

Slightly misleading title - it isn't a digital recording, it's an analogue recording (or at least it was, it has presumably been digitised now) of music generated by an early digital computer synthesiser. So I guess you could say its a "digital music" recording, but it isn't a digital "music recording" if you get me.

"Digital-music recording" was exactly what I was aiming for. I realise it was misleading, but it's hard to get "BBC finds earliest known recording of computer generated music" to fit the headline box.

salesman · 19th Jun 2008, 15:40

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Originally Posted by Gareth Halfacree

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Originally Posted by mclean007

Slightly misleading title - it isn't a digital recording, it's an analogue recording (or at least it was, it has presumably been digitised now) of music generated by an early digital computer synthesiser. So I guess you could say its a "digital music" recording, but it isn't a digital "music recording" if you get me.

"Digital-music recording" was exactly what I was aiming for. I realise it was misleading, but it's hard to get "BBC finds earliest known recording of computer generated music" to fit the headline box.

Ha. It's not all the BBC finds.

rhuitron · 19th Jun 2008, 19:28

Mpaa Eat your heart out!

(Or what ever the Music one is.)

LordPyrinc · 19th Jun 2008, 23:39

Just imagine the computing power we will have 20 years from now.... Hope I'm still a tech junkie then.

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