Generative Art Timeline · Chapter 3: Analog Era (1950s)
1957
An Experiment in Musical Composition is Published
This consequential paper by Brooks, Hopkins, Neumann and Wright outlines how a computer can be used as a system to create art.
Text by Peter Bauman. Generative Art Timeline, Le Random.
Sources
- Brooks, F. P., Jr., A. L. Hopkins, Jr., P. G. Neumann, and W. V. Wright. "An Experiment in Musical Composition." IRE Transactions on Electronic Computers EC-6, no. 3 (September 1957): 175-182.
People
A. L. Hopkins Jr., Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Peter G. Neumann, W. V. Wright
Movements
computer art, generative art, Generative Music
Filed under
- Ideas
- Computer Music, generative art, Generative Music, systems
- Technologies
- computer art
- People
- A. L. Hopkins Jr., Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Peter G. Neumann, W. V. Wright
- Works
- An Experiment in Musical Composition
Echoes across time
- 2002 · Doug Eck Advances Neural Network Creative Expression
- 1970 · Computer Art Meets the Venice Biennale
- 1975 · The 2nd International Conference on Computers and the Humanities (ICCH/2) at the University of Southern California
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- Timeline Ch 3—Analog Era (1950s) with Georg Bak — listen with transcript on Le Random (10 Aug 2023, 65 min). Chapter 3’s episode. Apple Podcasts · Spotify