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CSIR Mk1 & CSIRAC, Trevor Pearcey & Geoff Hill, Australia, 1951
Trevor Pearcey at the CSIR Mk1 CSIRAC was an early digital computer designed by the British engineer Trevor Pearcey as part of a research project at CSIRO ( Sydney-based Radiophysics Laboratory of the...
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The ‘Ferranti Mk1 ‘ Computer. Freddie Williams & Tom Kilburn, United Kingdom,...
Ferranti Mk1 Computer The oldest existing recording of a computer music programme. The Ferranti Mk1in 1951. Recorded live to acetate disk with a small audience of technicians. The Ferranti Mk1 was the...
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‘MUSIC N’, Max Vernon Mathews, USA, 1957
Max Mathews was a pioneering, central figure in computer music. After studying engineering at California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1954 Mathews went on to...
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‘GROOVE Systems’, Max Mathews & Richard Moore, USA 1970
Max Mathews with the GROOVE system In 1967 the composer and musician Richard Moore began a collaboration with Max Mathews at Bell Labs exploring performance and expression in computer music in a...
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The ‘PIPER’ System James Gabura & Gustav Ciamaga, Canada, 1965
Charles Hamm, Lejaren Hiller, Salvatore Martirano, Herbert Brün, James Gaburo at the EMS, Toronto, 1965 PIPER was one of the earliest hybrid performance system allowing composers and musicians to write...
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The ‘Allen Computer Organ’, Ralph Deutsch – Allen Organ Co, USA, 1971
Allen 301-3 Digital Computer organ of 1971 The Allen Computer Organ was one of the first commercial digital instruments, developed by Rockwell International (US military technology company) and built...
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EMS Synthesisers, Peter Zinovieff, Tristram Cary, David Cockerell United...
EMS (Electronic Music Studios) was founded in 1965 by Peter Zinovieff, the son of an aristocrat Russian émigré with a passion for electronic music who set up the studio in the back garden of his home...
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MUSYS. Peter Grogono, United Kingdom, 1969
EMS was the London electronic music studio founded and run by Peter Zinovieff in 1965 to research and produce experimental electronic music. The studio was based around two DEC PDP8 minicomputers,...
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‘Graphic 1′ William H. Ninke, Carl Christensen, Henry S. McDonald and Max...
‘Graphic 1′ was an hybrid hardware-software graphic input system for digital synthesis that allowed note values to be written on a CRT computer monitor – although very basic by current standards,...
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‘UPIC system’ (Unité Polyagogique Informatique du CEMAMu) Patrick Saint-Jean...
Iannis Xenakis and the UPIC system Developed by the computer engineer Patrick Saint-Jean directed by the composer Iannis Xenakis at CEMAMu (Centre d’Etudes de Mathématique et Automatique Musicales) in...
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