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Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"

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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.

HN shares it as an impressive early example of computer-generated music and of Kurzweil's precocity.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@KyleBrandt2016 · in “Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno”

Related, mind blown that kurzweil made programmed music in this presentation in 1965. ▶ this video He was ~17 in that video, and he built the computer as well.

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@steveeq12016 · in “What makes music sound “good?””

Ray Kurzweil seems to have made a passable song using a computer: ▶ this video Granted, I wouldn't say it's song of the year or anything, but it's definitely listenable. Does anyone know of his general approach in his software for writing music?

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@burritofanatic2015 · in “How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music”

I immediately thought of Ray Kurzweil when he played music that was written by a computer he programmed in 1965 in which he demonstrated on the game show I've Got a Secret. I'd say with all of these responses, we've progressed quite a bit. ▶ this video

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@mixmax2012 · in “A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956”

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 in 1965... ▶ this video

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