‘He touched a nerve’: how the first piece of AI music was born in 1956
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msn.comdeepfake compositions was Hiller’s piece, described by the New York Times in his 1994 obituary as “the first substantial piece of music composed on a computer” – and indeed by a computer.
One of the four musicians who performed the piece that night was George Andrix, a violist and composition student at the university.
Now 89, Andrix remembers an auditorium packed with people “who showed up to see what this monster of a computer could do. ” The Illiac I, short for Illinois Automatic Computer, was the first supercomputer to be housed by an academic institution. “It would have been a big point of pride that the computer was being used in this way,” he says.
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