WELLINGTON - New Zealand researchers said on Monday they have restored the first recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by British genius Alan Turing. "Alan Turing's pioneering work in the late 1940s on transforming the computer into a musical instrument has been largely overlooked," they said. The recording gave at best only a rough impression of how the computer sounded," they said. "It was a beautiful moment when we first heard the true sound of Turing's computer," Copeland and Long said in a blog post on the British Library website. While Turing programmed the first musical notes into a computer, he had little interest in stringing them together into tunes.

Source: Bangkok Post September 26, 2016 06:00 UTC