Unplayed by Human Hands

1976

Music/Sound

Computer Humanities Records, La Crescenta, California, CH 9771
LP, 12-inch
Sealed

The Listening Room

Description

On this 1976 record a DEC PDP-8 minicomputer plays, in a live concert, the Schlicker organ at All Saints Church in Pasadena, an instrument of ninety ranks, or sets of pipes. Prentiss Knowlton, a computer scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, produced it. He and his team encoded the scores and supplied touch, tempo and dynamics, and the computer pressed the keys. Alan Ashton, one of its credited programmers, later co-founded WordPerfect. Robert Earl Dewar’s computer art on the pink cover is dated 1974.

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