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Song Zheng, a fifth-year computer science student and winner of Facebook’s SoCal Camp Hackathon at UCLA, gives students programming lessons. His course is offered through the Association of ...
A well-rounded thinker Inventing computer programming was not the first time Lovelace brought her knowledge from different areas to bear on a new subject.
How a computer program became classical music's hot, new composer 'Emily Howell' is a computer program that composes classical music by following rules of music its programmer taught it.
Do away with the DJ and scrap the composer. A computer program powered by Darwinian natural selection and the musical tastes of 7,000 website users may be on the way to creating a perfect pop tune ...
Singer Nick Frosst and guitarist Jacob Tsafatinos from the band sit down with Q's Tom Power to talk about the intersection between computer programming and music.
The oldest recording of computer music was made in late 1951 by a BBC outside broadcast unit at the University of Manchester for the BBC Home Service program Children's Hour.
Computers found their voice in the early 1960s with the IBM 7094, the first computer that was used to program and produce a computer-synthesized voice. The pioneering ditty has recently gained a ...
The computer program narrows the search for tipping points, giving precise moments when music shifted as a whole. Mauch thinks music nerds or web-based audio platforms like Spotify could use this ...
Forgot the name of your favourite tune? Then just sing to your computer and let it download the song for you. Australian computer scientist Dr Sandra Uitdenbogerd from RMIT University says ...
Voyager, a computer program, played with Ensemble Signal in the U.S. premiere of a George Lewis piece that was a highlight of this year’s concert calendar.