Composers & Computers

Has digital music reached the point of diminishing returns? Has it all been done, and heard, before? At the start of a new millennium,...

Paul Lansky is the most celebrated and musically influential of the computer musicians at Princeton, and it isn’t only because he was famously sampled...

Imagine using a computer to synthesize music, but not being able to hear it as you built it. That's how it was in the...

When the Computer Center opened along with the Engineering Quadrangle at Princeton in 1962, who knew that the Music Department would be one of...

This episode is the story of what happened when a Princeton composer, who was inspired to create some of the most challenging music ever...

A revolution in music happened in the Princeton Engineering Quadrangle, but chances are, you don’t know the story. Sixty years ago, some music-loving computer...