Did you know that codebreaker and computer pioneer Alan Turing created the first recording of computer music? He didn't intend to create music when he programmed computer-generated notes; they were meant to be used as signals to the user of a complete job or the more troubling “digits overflowing in memory.” The result is three tunes - “God Save the Queen,” “Baa Baa Black Sheep,” and Glenn Miller’s “In the Mood”- that survive on a 12-inch acetate disc from 1951.
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1951 - God Save the King
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