The first-ever computer-generated music, recorded in the labs of computer pioneer Alan
Turing in 1951, has been restored, according to The British Library.
A BBC unit in Manchester, England, made the recording using a primitive computer that filled much of the ground floor of Turing's Computing Machine Laboratory. The computer no longer exists, but the 12-inch single-sided acetate disc, cut by the BBC's technician while the computer played, remains. The record disc captured three songs: "God Save the King," "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep" and Glenn Miller's famous swing melody "In the Mood."
Though Turing is best known for breaking the German Enigma code during World War II and is credited as one of the fathers of computing, this recording reveals he was also a musical innovator. [Creative Genius: The World's Greatest Minds] https://www.livescience.com/56262-computer-generated-music-recording-restored.html
