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Stria corresponds to an intermediate point between parameter-by-parameter composition and automatic composition. Mr. Chowning declares that during the composition of the piece, he seemed to always want more and more control over detail and ended up for this reason with a large number of variables. Because he had spent many hours thinking carefully about controlling [...]

Luciano Chessa: Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners. Reconstruction project commissioned by Performa 09. European premiere Rovereto sept. 30, 2010. Luciano Chessa: conductor.
T.R.I.O. Trento Risuona Improvisation Orchestra: Intonarumori.
Sylvano Bussotti: piano, voice. Nicholas Isherwood: basso voice, piano. Bussotti’s composition “VARIAZIONE RUSSOLO – slancio d’angoli” [1]

In 1957 … the first computer-generated sounds were heard at Bell Telephone Laboratories (or Bell Labs, as it was called) in Murray Hill, New Jersey. Max Mathews had joined the acoustic research department at Bell Labs to develop computer equipment to study telephones. With the aim of using listening tests to judge the quality of [...]

On February 23rd, 1924, Lejaren Hiller was born in New York City. Hiller would become recognized as one of the pioneers of algorithmic composition. In 1957 he wrote the first major computer assisted composition. The Illiac Suite was composed using University of Illinois’ Illiac computer.

Actual work on this problem was started [...]

On this date in 1934, Laurens Hammond received a patent for an “electrical musical instrument”. This instrument would go on to become one of the most commercially successful electronic musical instruments. Even today, Hammond organs are ubiquitous, and their sound is iconic.

Inventor Laurens Hammond designed and manufactured a variety of instruments: clocks, an
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