{"id":3951,"date":"2021-12-07T13:36:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T12:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/he-touched-a-nerve-how-the-first-piece-of-ai-music-was-born-in-1956\/"},"modified":"2021-12-07T13:36:40","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T12:36:40","slug":"he-touched-a-nerve-how-the-first-piece-of-ai-music-was-born-in-1956","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/07\/he-touched-a-nerve-how-the-first-piece-of-ai-music-was-born-in-1956\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He touched a nerve\u2019: how the first piece of AI music was born in 1956"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long before Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions, university professor Lejaren Hiller premiered a concert recital composed by a computer and became an overnight celebrity<\/p>\n

On the evening of 9 August 1956, a couple of hundred people squeezed into a student union lounge for a concert recital at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about 130 miles outside Chicago. Student performances didn\u2019t usually attract so many people, but this was an exceptional case, the debut of the Illiac Suite: String Quartet No 4, that a member of the chemistry faculty, Lejaren Hiller Jr, had devised with the school\u2019s one and only computer, the Illiac I.<\/p>\n

Decades before today\u2019s artificial intelligence pop stars, Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions<\/a> was Hiller\u2019s piece, described by the New York Times in his 1994 obituary as \u201cthe first substantial piece of music composed on a computer\u201d \u2013 and indeed by<\/em> a computer.<\/p>\n

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\nLong before Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions, university professor Lejaren Hiller premiered a concert recital composed by a computer and became an overnight celebrity
\nOn the evening of 9 August 1956, a couple of hundred people squeezed into a student union lounge for a concert recital at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about 130 miles outside Chicago. Student performances didn\u2019t usually attract so many people, but this was an exceptional case, the debut of the Illiac Suite: String Quartet No 4, that a member of the chemistry faculty, Lejaren Hiller Jr, had devised with the school\u2019s one and only computer, the Illiac I.
\nDecades before today\u2019s artificial intelligence pop stars, Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions was Hiller\u2019s piece, described by the New York Times in his 1994 obituary as \u201cthe first substantial piece of music composed on a computer\u201d \u2013 and indeed by a computer. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Long before Auto-Tune and deepfake compositions, university professor Lejaren Hiller premiered a concert recital composed by a computer and became an overnight celebrity On the evening of 9 August 1956, a couple of hundred people squeezed into a student union lounge for a concert recital at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about 130 miles outside …<\/p>\n

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