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The world's first computer to play music was the CSIR Mark 1 (later named CSIRAC), which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard in the late 1940s. Mathematician Geoff Hill programmed the CSIR Mark 1 to play popular musical melodies from the very early 1950s.
Oct 13, 2008 · 1951 - The first computer music recording Believe it or not, computers were being used to make music as long as 57 years ago. The oldest known recording is of a Ferranti Mark 1 computer at the University of Manchester - it played God Save The Queen , Baa Baa Black Sheep and In The Mood.
Jun 26, 2016 · Geoff Hill and Trevor Pearcey in 1952 with the CSIR Mk1, the world’s first computer to make music. University of Melbourne/MSE-CIS Heritage Collection
Oct 26, 2017 · Unfortunately, The Oxford Handbook of Computer Music also states that CSIRAC was “the first computer to play music.” However, this most certainly was not the case.
May 7, 2015 · CSIRAC: The world's first computer to play music. It filled a room the size of a double garage and had only a fraction of the brainpower of the cheapest electronic organiser, but it could play... CSIRAC is the only first generation computer still intact today (Source: ABC) Celebrating 50 years of ABC Science, Science Online, 01 Sep 2014.
It is the oldest surviving first-generation electronic computer (the Zuse Z4 at the Deutsches Museum is older, but was electro-mechanical, not electronic), and was the first in the world to play digital music.
Jun 4, 2019 · Max Mathews made his computer sing one day in 1957. He wasn’t the first to accomplish the feat, but the event was for electronic music what the Trinity test was for nukes. It is the Anno Domini, the date at which all timelines begin. Mathews was likely born to be an academic.
