Experimental Music: Composition with an Electronic Computer

Lejaren Arthur Hiller Jr Leonard Isaacson

1959

Book

McGraw-Hill, New York
First edition
Hardback with dust jacket
vi, 197 pages
9.5" tall

The Library

Description

Lejaren Hiller, a chemist, and Leonard Isaacson, a mathematician, tell in this book how they programmed the ILLIAC computer at the University of Illinois to compose the Illiac Suite for string quartet. Starting in September 1955, they had the machine generate random numbers and keep or reject each note by rules of counterpoint and other rule sets, in four experiments that became the suite’s four movements. The full score is printed at the back of the book.

HPSCHD John Cage1969 Sound

Computer Music from the University of Illinois by Lejaren Arthur Hiller Jr, 1967

Computer Music from the University of Illinois Multiple Artists1967 Sound

Music By Computers by Heinz von Förster, 1969

Music By Computers Multiple Artists1969 Sound

HPSCHD (Electronic Music Foundation CD, 2003) by John Cage, 2003

HPSCHD (Electronic Music Foundation CD, 2003) John Cage2003 Sound

Computer Music: Computer Cantata / 91 Plus 5 by Lejaren Arthur Hiller Jr, 1973

Computer Music: Computer Cantata / 91 Plus 5 Multiple Artists1973 Sound

Music From Mathematics (Box Set) by Max Vernon Mathews, 1960-1961

Music From Mathematics (Box Set) Multiple Artists1960-1961 Sound

Ordination Photo by Roman Verostko, 1959

Ordination Photo Roman Verostko1959 Photograph

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution: The Rede Lecture by Charles Percy Snow, 1959

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution: The Rede Lecture Charles Percy Snow1959 Book