Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2012–2016.
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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.
“mind blown that kurzweil made programmed music in this presentation in 1965.”
4 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
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.
in “Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno” · View on HN
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
in “A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956” · View on HN
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?
in “What makes music sound “good?”” · View on HN
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
in “How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music” · View on HN