Whacky Computer Music Story of the Day…
Boing Boing: Symphony for old IBM mainframe
In 1964, an Icelandic IBM 1401 mainframe engineer figured out how to get the machine to emit beautiful, bassy notes, and composed a symphony for it. Now his son is touring the symphony wiht interpretive dance thrown in.
Wikipedia has a nice entry on the IBM 1401, including some details about this musical. 🙂
[tags]Computer Music[/tags]