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Terrence O’Brien @ The Verge · today 08:00 EDT

Laurie Spiegel on the difference between algorithmic music and ‘AI’

In 1986, electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel created Music Mouse, a way for those with a Mac, Atari, or Amiga computer to dabble in algorithmic music creation. Music Mouse is deceptively simple: Notes are arranged on an XY grid, and you play it by moving a mouse around. Back in 1986, the computer mouse was […]

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