The Music of CSIRAC: Australia's First Computer Music

Paul Doornbusch

2005

Book

Common Ground Publishing, Melbourne
Paperback
101 pages
Issued with a CD

The Library

Description

Paul Doornbusch’s book documents the music of CSIRAC, an Australian computer that ran its first program in November 1949 under the name CSIR Mk1. As early as 1951 the mathematician Geoff Hill had programmed it to play popular melodies through its “hooter,” a speaker normally used to signal events in a program. None of this music was recorded at the time, so Doornbusch and his colleagues rebuilt the sound from surviving punched paper tapes. The book’s CD holds 16 tracks, including Colonel Bogey and Auld Lang Syne.

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