Here's another interesting episode of the same show (I've got a secret) - it's a 17 year old Ray Kurzweil plaing the piano. His secret is that he wrote a computer program that made the music he's playing. Pretty impressive for a 17 year old in 1965... [this video]
17-year-old Kurzweil plays music composed by his own program in 1965.
Related, mind blown that kurzweil made programmed music in this presentation in 1965. [this video] He was ~17 in that video, and he built the computer as well.
Kurzweil at 17 presenting computer-composed music he built hardware for.
I immediately thought of Ray Kurzweil when he played music that was written by a computer he programmed in 1965 in which he demonstrated on the game show I've Got a Secret. I'd say with all of these responses, we've progressed quite a bit. [this video]
Ray Kurzweil seems to have made a passable song using a computer: [this video] Granted, I wouldn't say it's song of the year or anything, but it's definitely listenable. Does anyone know of his general approach in his software for writing music?
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