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The earliest surviving pieces of music performed by computers dates from1951. It is believed that three computers, actually did this, but the performance of 'Colonel Bogey' by Australia's CSIRAC computer does not appear to have been recorded.
The British Ferranti Mk.I (aka the Manchester Mk.II) was featured in a BBC broadcast from which a recording of it playing 'God Save The King' (It is a British computer after all...), Baa,Baa, Black Sheep & In The Mood survives.
And finally the US Whirlwind computer at MIT which performed Jingle Bells on TV as part of an episode of the Ed Murrow 'See It Now' (It's right at the end of the clip)
There are a few interesting articles on line covering the tech archaeology needed to recover this part of computer history.
Jingle Bits: Auditory Maintenance, Whirlwind Holiday Songs, the dawn of computer Music
https://computerhistory.org/blog/ji...ind-holiday-songs-the-dawn-of-computer-music/
Restoring the First Recording of Computer Music.
https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html
The British Ferranti Mk.I (aka the Manchester Mk.II) was featured in a BBC broadcast from which a recording of it playing 'God Save The King' (It is a British computer after all...), Baa,Baa, Black Sheep & In The Mood survives.
And finally the US Whirlwind computer at MIT which performed Jingle Bells on TV as part of an episode of the Ed Murrow 'See It Now' (It's right at the end of the clip)
There are a few interesting articles on line covering the tech archaeology needed to recover this part of computer history.
Jingle Bits: Auditory Maintenance, Whirlwind Holiday Songs, the dawn of computer Music
https://computerhistory.org/blog/ji...ind-holiday-songs-the-dawn-of-computer-music/
Restoring the First Recording of Computer Music.
https://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html