hapticity » Max Mathews http://hapticity.net Wed, 16 May 2012 14:41:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 #/?v=3.5.1 “He imagined and created his own magical world and first built the essential concepts and tools that allowed us all to do the same.” /2011/05/11/he-imagined-and-created-his-own-magical-world-and-first-built-the-essential-concepts-and-tools-that-allowed-us-all-to-do-the-same/ /2011/05/11/he-imagined-and-created-his-own-magical-world-and-first-built-the-essential-concepts-and-tools-that-allowed-us-all-to-do-the-same/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 02:07:57 +0000 Dave /?p=4214 Max Mathews, electronic music pioneer, has died.

Though computer music is at the edge of the avant-garde today, its roots go back to 1957, when Mathews wrote the first version of “Music,” a program that allowed an IBM 704 mainframe computer to play a 17-second composition. He quickly realized, as he put it in a 1963 article in Science, “There are no theoretical limits to the performance of the computer as a source of musical sounds.”

Rest in peace, Max.

UPDATE: I haven’t updated this blog in a while, and I realized after posting this that my previous post was about the 2010 Modulations concert. Max Mathews played at Modulations too, and that was the last time I saw him.

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