Computer Music Currents, Vol. 13: The Historical CD of Digital Sound Synthesis

An excellent and well chosen overview of the birth of computer-generated music in the late '50s and early '60s. Contains: Newmann Guttman: The Silver Scale (1957), Pitch Variations (1957), John R. Pierce Stochatta (1959), Variations in Timbre and Attack (1961), Sea Sounds (1963), Eight-Tone Canon (1966), Max V. Matthews Numerology (1960), The Second Law (1961), Bicycle Built for Two (1961), Masquerades (1963), International Lullaby (1966), David Lewin Study No. 1, Study No. 2 (1961), James Tenney Dialogue (1963), Ercolino Ferretti Pipe and Drum (1963), Trio (1965), James Randall Mudgett, Monologues for a Mass Murderer (1965). There are also copious and interesting articles by each of the composers. ~ "Blue" Gene Tyranny