THE VIDEO SHELF · computer-generated music
Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"
Seventeen-year-old Ray Kurzweil appears on the TV show I've Got a Secret in 1965, playing a piece of music composed by a computer program he built.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN shares it as an impressive early example of computer-generated music and of Kurzweil's precocity.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Sidewinder77
- Topic
- computer-generated music
- Format
- other
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2012–2016
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Here's another interesting episode of the same show (I've got a secret) - it's a 17 year old Ray Kurzweil plaing the piano. His secret is that he wrote a computer program that made the music he's playing. Pretty impressive for a 17 year old …
mixmax on Hacker News · 2012-10
In A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956Related, mind blown that kurzweil made programmed music in this presentation in 1965. [VIDEO] He was ~17 in that video, and he built the computer as well.
KyleBrandt on Hacker News · 2016-09
In Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno
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