Max Mathews

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John Harrison

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Apr 21, 2011, 8:34:17 PM4/21/11

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Max Mathews, arguably the Father of Computer Music, died today.

"Computer performance of music was born in 1957 when an IBM 704 in NYC played a 17 second composition on the Music I program which I wrote. The timbres and notes were not inspiring, but the technical breakthrough is still reverberating. Music I led me to Music II through V. A host of others wrote Music 10, Music 360, Music 15, Csound and Cmix.

taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Mathews, which in turn likely came from http://www.csounds.com/mathews/