Episode 87 - The ILLIAC Suite

Can a computer be creative? Can we program a machine to make art? It turns out the answer is yes, and it doesn't even take artificial intelligence. This episode we are diving in to the ILLIAC Suite, a piece for string quartet that was composed by a computer. Along the way we will examine the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, and how methods used to create the hydrogen bomb were adapted to create music.   Selected Sources:   https://archive.org/details/experimentalmusi0000hill/page/n5/mode/1up - Experimental Music   https://web.archive.org/web/20171107072033/http://www.computing-conference.ugent.be/file/12 - Algoryhythmic Listening(page 40)   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEb-H1Xb9XcIyrrN5qauFr2KAolSbPi0c - The ILLIAC Suite, in 4 parts