Two Pioneering Projects from the Early History of Computer-Aided Algorithmic Composition
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Ariza, Christopher T.
Date Issued
September 2011
Journal
Computer Music Journal
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MIT Press
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Ariza, Christopher. “Two Pioneering Projects from the Early History of Computer-Aided Algorithmic Composition.” Computer Music Journal 35.3 (2011): 40-56. Web. 20 Jan. 2012. © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Abstract
Lejaren Hiller's 1970 chapter, "Music Composed
with Computers: An Historical Survey" (Hiller
1970) contains numerous descriptions of projects
in the computer generation of musical structures.
By then, just over ten years after the publication
of Hiller's and Leonard Isaacson's seminal book
Experimental Music (Hiller and Isaacson 1959), a
startling number of experiments in generativemusic
with early computers had been completed. Hiller’s
early research, compositions, and publications
established him as a leader in the then-emerging
field of computer-aided algorithmic composition
(CAAC). Some researchers, likely inspired by Hiller
and Isaacson's 1956 Illiac Suite string quartet, even
duplicated their instrumentation: in an amusing
footnote, Hiller writes that "it is curious to note
how many computer pieces have been written for
string quartet . . . particularly since string-quartet
performers seem to be among the least receptive to
newer compositional ideas such as computermusic"
(Hiller 1970, p. 70).
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Music and Theater Arts Section
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https://doi.org/10.1162/COMJ_a_00068
