| |
KF5JRV > TECH 18.06.16 13:36l 27 Lines 1502 Bytes #-3371 (0) @ WW
BID : 4718_KF5JRV
Read: GUEST DK3UZ OE7FMI
Subj: First Singing Computer
Path: DB0FHN<OE2XZR<OE5XBL<F1OYP<IZ3LSV<IR1UAW<IQ5KG<I0OJJ<N6RME<N0KFQ<
KF5JRV
Sent: 160618/1126Z 4718@KF5JRV.#NWAR.AR.USA.NA BPQK1.4.65
>From kf5jrv%kf5jrv.#nwar.ar.usa.na@i0ojj.ampr.org Sat Jun 18 13:30:15 2016
Received: from i0ojj.ampr.org by i0ojj.ampr.org (JNOS2.0j.7v) with SMTP
id AA231750 ; Sat, 18 Jun 2016 13:30:15 +0200
Message-Id: <4718_kf5jrv@n6rme.bbs>
>From: kf5jrv@kf5jrv.#nwar.ar.usa.na
X-JNOS-User-Port: Telnet (n6rme @ 44.134.32.240) -> Sending message
The IBM 7094 is The First Computer to Sing 1961
A recording made at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey on an IBM 7094
mainframe computer in 1961 is the earliest known recording of a
computer-synthesized voice singing a song\emdash Daisy Bell, also known as
"Bicycle Built for Two." The recording was programmed by physicist John L.
Kelly Jr., and Carol Lockbaum, and featured musical accompaniment written by
computer music pioneer Max Mathews.
The science fiction novelist Arthur C. Clarke witnessed a demonstration of the
piece while visiting his friend, the electric engineer and science fiction
writer, John R. Pierce, who was a Bell Labs employee at the time. Clarke was
so impressed that he incorporated the 7094's musical performance in the 1968
novel, and the script for the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. One of the
first things that Clarke relates is that the fictional HAL 9000 computer had learned
when it was originally programmed was the song "Daisy Bell". Near the end of
the story, when the computer was being deactivated, or put to sleep by
astronaut Dave Bowman, it lost its mind and degenerated to singing "Daisy Bell".
Read previous mail | Read next mail
| |
