Have you heard of Raymond Scott and the Electronium? Similar to today's generative AI technology, the Electronium could create music on its own via prompts.
And it did so 60 years ago.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ai-music-isn-t-raymond-135849023.html
Image: The Electronium (Photo via Reckless Night Music LLC and RaymondScott.net)
@brainwise the #excellent June 27 #episode (542) of the #99PercentInvisible / #99Pi #podcast discusses the #history of the #Electronium.
You can check it out here
The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of course it’s not a record, in the sense of an audio recording: It’s
@brainwise would you look at that!
It’s the same episode that’s mentioned in the article!
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