Rocketboom Tech's Ellie Rountree talks about generative music and interviews laptop musician Luke DuBois about his work in this medium. Originally posted to Rocketboom on 17 November 2009.

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Unfortunately, embedding is disabled by request, but watch the amazing 1977 video from Kraftwerk's song, The Robots. The two screen grabs I took don't do it justice.

Kraftwerk "The Robots"
Kraftwerk "The Robots"

Watch the video.

21 January 21 1969—Music composed, modified, and assembled by Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Laboratory. The complete, extended composition is synchronized with a film by Lloyd Michael Williams, expressly created for the occasion. During the final stages of composition all sound materials were further modified and assembled at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Studio.

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