In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...

Curtis Roads was barely out of high school in 1970, playing music in the metro area surrounding the University of Illinois, a pioneering center of computer music. He wasn’t a student, but through a ...

We don’t think of computers as something you’d find in the 17th century. But [Levi McClain] found plans for one in a book — books, actually — by [Athanasius Kirker] about music. The arca musarithmica, ...

Now marking its 45th anniversary, we explore the musical and cultural impact of electronic pioneers Kraftwerk's seminal ...

French Composers Pierre Barbaud, 50, and Roger Blanchard, 43, have a peculiar ambition: they want to make composers obsolete. They have worked long and hard to create a composing machine as versatile ...