The Illiac Suite was the first substantial musical composition made through a computer program. It was generated in 1956 by Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson, University professors in chemistry.

For all the spellbinding thrill it can weave within its veil of apparent unpredictability, music depends on plain old math. Musicians might tune their instruments to a standard pitch for a fuller ...

Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days in Silicon Valley – and no wonder. There appears to be no end to the possible applications. Some say AI is simply freeing humans of the boring tasks, ...

Tomas Villegas was looking for information about a product on YouTube, but couldn't find it. "So I thought, well, I'm sure there's other people looking for it. So I made a video." Four years later, ...

An introduction to the fundamental materials of a variety of music, including Western concert music, jazz, and popular music. Course activities center around interrelated theoretical, compositional, ...

Music and artificial intelligence (AI) both provide modern students with tools for exploration and creativity, says math and computer science major Brian Liu ’25, who is also a gifted concert pianist.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Leslie Katz covers the intersection of culture, science and tech. Eduardo Reck Miranda’s musical composition “Qubism” features ...

THESE DAYS, anyone with a computer can be a composer. Sort of. Give a piece of commercial software such as Magenta, developed by Google, the first few notes of a song, and it will make something ...

When talking about computers, most people don't use words like "emotionally rich" or "expressive." But those are the descriptors that Charles Nichols hopes people will attach to the music he and his ...

Ian Daly received funding from the EPSRC to do this work. Eduardo R. Miranda receives funding from the EPSRC. Slawomir Nasuto receives funding from the EPSRC. Whether it’s the music that was playing ...

Renowned composer Laurie Spiegel marks the 40th anniversary of Music Mouse, discussing the unique aspects of "algorithmic" music in contrast to AI-generated sounds.