The Computer as a Musical Instrument

``As a musical instrument, the computer has unlimited potentialities for uttering sound. It can, in fact, produce strings of numbers representing any conceivable or hearable sound. Wonderful things would come out of that box if only we knew how to evoke them.''

John Pierce,
Playboy, 1965

``Because the bandwidth and dynamic range of music is bounded, any perceivable sound can be produced from numbers.''

Max Mathews,
The Technology of Computer Music, 1969

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