H4-94: AUDIOTAPE - VOICE OF THE COMPUTER

PURPOSE: First full recording of computer-generated music, including the original Shepard's tones.

DESCRIPTION: This recording was the first full issue of computer generated music. It includes examples of step-wise rising and falling Shepard's tones, and an electronic music suite using a downward glissando version of Shepard's tones to represent the falling of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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REFERENCES: (PIRA unknown.)

EQUIPMENT: Audiotape.

SETUP TIME: None.


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