[…] In 1962 a group of musicians, mathematicians and electrical engineers gathered at Bell Labs where they composed and recorded one of the first albums of computer generated music called Music From Mathematics. The film 7090 is a graphic response to this historic sound recording.

[…] The commentary by Phil Clark of UbuWeb describes the music on the album as a mixture of strange, other-worldly blips, rushing white noise, tootly reworkings of classical pieces and a marvelous period singing computer version of A Bicycle Made For Two.

[…] The LP Music From Mathematics Played by IBM 7090 Computer and Digital To Sound Transducer was originally released on Decca Records and published by Brunswick (UK) in 1962.

=> 7090 – a short film by Ian Mitchell

=> Background: Music From Mathematics

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[…] The IBM 7090 was a second-generation transistorized version of the earlier IBM 709 vacuum tube mainframe computers and was designed for „large-scale scientific and technological applications“. The 7090 was the third member of the IBM 700/7000 series scientific computers. The first 7090 installation was in November 1959. In 1960, a typical system sold for $2,900,000 or could be rented for $63,500 a month.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=IBM_7090 (08/2007)

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Label: „IBM 7090 Computer“
File: ari6008.jpg
Year: 1960
Category: Professions \\ Clothing \\ Technology & Industry
Credit: University of Illinois Archives (RS 11/15/801) from „Byte of History: Computing at the University of Illinois“ exhibit, March 1997
=> Source: images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/gcm…

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