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yours probably predates this but this was pretty neat and interesting that it turned into an actual album

"Music From Mathematics" was an album of early electronic music, programmed by the boffins (very likely in authentic period white coats and glasses) at Bell Laboratories way back in the early 1960s, using the then-new IBM 7090 computer and an "electronic to sound transducer". The music on the album, about half of which is included here, is a mixture of strange, other-worldly blips, rushing white noise, tootly reworkings of classical pieces and a marvellous period "singing computer" version of "A Bicycle Made For Two"

it makes me wonder how much time and effort is put into todays electronic music. has more intelligent computers oversimplified the process and made music more impersonal as electronic playlists have done to mixtapes?

Matthew:I take it you have never tried to make electronic music?

i'll second that. even with the affordances provided by software/computers etc. it still takes a lot of talent to make meaningful and well composed electronic music, and, in many ways it's even harder to push the envelope because you have to rise above so many "peers". I'm not, by any means, a composer of EM, but i have great respect for musicians in that field.

also, when producing electronic music, you have to be familiar with what sound actually IS. If you're not familiar with what an actual sound-wave is, and what causes the frequencies to make different noises, then you are just going to be stuck making some trite shit like kruder and dorfmeister.. Everyone is always quick to say that it takes more talent to play real instruments, but I can guarantee that if a guitarist and myself switched mediums, me with a guitar, and them with audio production software, I bet I could make the guitar sound better than what the other person could come up with. (if they can even produce any sound at all.)

hachacha:

oh man, this isn't an attack on you, please don't take it that way. just a bit of an opinion in regard to your query. in our opinion, no, the introduction of more accessible electronic media hasn't made the composition of good EM easy to do.