Writer and musician David Was introduces a composer who has developed a computer system that plays along with a human musician. The computer matches the musician's improvisations with riffs of its own ...

Part experimental technique, part musical composition, "live coding" is still a little-known technique for the general public. Its principle: create music in real-time by programming computer code ...

Computers found their voice in the early 1960s with the IBM 7094, the first computer that was used to program and produce a computer-synthesized voice. The pioneering ditty has recently gained a ...

Students are using computers to create music through coding rather than traditional instruments.