In 1951, a BBC outside broadcast unit brought a portable acetate disc cutter to the Manchester Computing Machine Laboratory and recorded three melodies played by Alan Turing's Mark II computer. The ...

We’re sad to announce that Computer Music's most recent issue will be the final issue of the magazine. First launched in 1998, Computer Music’s existence was spurred by the giddy excitement about the ...

Music made by computers has been commonplace for many years now. All but the most lo-fi of recordings are going to go through a computer in some fashion, and oftentimes computers are doing all the ...

Designing and programming networked technologies might seem like an advanced topic for computer science education, but researchers from University of Colorado Boulder’s ATLAS Institute and Goldsmiths, ...

The world's oldest known recording of computer-generated music has been restored to its former glory by a team from the British Library. Taken from an acetate-cut recording made by the BBC in 1951, ...

When a band calls itself Fast Computers, it's fair to expect electronic music with calculated beats, programmed sequences and digital production. And, to a degree, the group meets that expectation.

Dan Deacon is one of the few pop electronic dance music-makers who is also consistently described as a composer. His music takes sharp turns — from raucous dance party to gentle orchestration and back ...

One day, you bump into your favorite author walking down the street. His works have made an indelible imprint on you, expressing sentiments and feelings about the world that you’ve always had but ...

Computers and digital technology are central to the modern music industry – but what could quantum computers bring to the party? Philip Ball tunes in to an avant-garde band of musicians and scientists ...