Max Mathews John Chowning Music Meets the Computer

Recorded: December 14, 2004 Computers have revolutionized music making. Two of the most important pioneers of computer music, Max Mathews and John Chowning, stand at the epicenter of this musical revolution. Research led by Mathews at Bell Laboratories, beginning in the 1950s, created a series of programming languages that are the direct precursors of today s software synthesizers. Max Mathew s many contributions to interactive music systems, algorithmic composition, and psychoacoustics (with JeanCla