Automation Edges out Tunesters, Writes Songs Wholesale (Sep, 1956)
Automation Edges out Tunesters, Writes Songs Wholesale
The pianist above is playing a tune as it is composed by the electronic brain he gazes at wistfully. The complicated Burroughs machine can turn out 1,000 tunes an hour – all mathematically calculated to be popular. It picks off a series of coded numbers, matches them with melodic formulas, rejects sour notes.
Well, that explains rap and hip-hop…
Comment by Eliyahu — May 26, 2008 @ 1:52 pm
Love that old expression – ‘electronic brain’
Comment by Paul — February 1, 2009 @ 3:34 pm