The Modern Method September/October 2006 The Jukeboxes at PaulCollegio.net
	The Modern Method presents a selection of twentieth centiry composer music - stochastically selected, of course - and this jukebox page is for modern academic music, since, conceptually, so much of it flows down into our beloved popular avant garde, it's good to keep a scholarly eye on these things... ARTIST: Hiller/Isaacson/Baker TITLE: Computer Music from the University of Illinois TRACK: A3. Illiac Suite for String Quartet, 3rd Movement LABEL: Heliodor FORMAT: LP
Replay | Stop | Download | Comment I couldn't resist this LP at a flea market when I found it for 25 cents. Look at the cover. PUNCH CARDS. Excellent. The track here is written for string quartet, and was recorded in 1957. It is historically significant because it is the first substantial piece of music produced with a computer. Rules for composition were written for the university's ILLIAC I computer, with compositional techniques employing some of the randomness ideology pioneered by Cage and Stockhausen along with a more directed approach as well. The Illiac was eventually sold for scrap.