From Create Digital Music (via The Daily Swarm):
Max Mathews, the man who literally first gave voice to computer music, died [Thursday] at age 84. I can only offer my heartfelt condolences to Max’s friends and family.
Max was the man present at the moment when the very subject matter of this site was born. An IBM 704 playing his 17-second composition marked the first genuinely digital synthesis of music on a computer.
[Photo: Kevin]
