May 10th Show

A special focus on music from Max Mathews tonight, as he is coming to visit the Media Lab on Thursday and Friday. Some of the pieces below are the earliest known works of computer music; they set the foundation for everything computer-generated since.

  1. catch a spear as it flies by Peter Wright. pariahs sing om. Last Visible Dog.
  2. Mahogany by Growing. Color Wheel. Megablade.
  3. Home Security by re:. alms. Constellation Records.
  4. The Historical CD of Sound Synthesis by Newman Guttman. The Silver Scale. Unsure.
  5. Music from Mathematics by Max Mathews. 3 against 4 canon. Decca.
  6. Music from Mathematics by Max Mathews. Numerology. Decca.
  7. The Historical CD of Sound Synthesis by Max Mathews. Bicycle Built for Two. Unsure.
  8. Track 4 by Phil Durrant, Thomas Lehn, Radu Malfatti. Dach. Erstwhile Records.
  9. Noémie by Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid. The Exchange Session Vol 2. Domino.
     

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Nick Knouf is the DJ and producer of sigtronica. He's been on WMBR nearly continuously since the Fall of 2004, first on a show called somewhere never travelled, then switching in the Fall of 2005 to sigtronica. He's currently a first-year master's student at the MIT Media Lab in the Hyperinstruments Group. His work and research can be seen on zeitkunst.org.

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