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    Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"

    Sidewinder77

    2 HN recommenders · recommended in 4 months, 2012–2016

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    3:21 · 210K views · Apr 18, 2007

    Seventeen-year-old Ray Kurzweil appears on the TV show I've Got a Secret in 1965, playing a piece of music composed by a computer program he built.

    HN shares it as an impressive early example of computer-generated music and of Kurzweil's precocity.

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    4 comments from Hacker News

    1. @mixmaxOct 2012· in “A Guy Who Saw Lincoln Get Shot Was on a TV Show in 1956”

      Here's another interesting episode of the same show (I've got a secret) - it's a 17 year old Ray Kurzweil plaing the piano. His secret is that he wrote a computer program that made the music he's playing. Pretty impressive for a 17 year old in 1965... this video

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    2. @KyleBrandtSep 2016· in “Learning Web Audio by Recreating the Works of Steve Reich and Brian Eno”

      Related, mind blown that kurzweil made programmed music in this presentation in 1965. this video He was ~17 in that video, and he built the computer as well.

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    3. @burritofanaticFeb 2015· in “How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music”

      I immediately thought of Ray Kurzweil when he played music that was written by a computer he programmed in 1965 in which he demonstrated on the game show I've Got a Secret. I'd say with all of these responses, we've progressed quite a bit. this video

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    4. @steveeq1Jul 2016· in “What makes music sound “good?””

      Ray Kurzweil seems to have made a passable song using a computer: this video Granted, I wouldn't say it's song of the year or anything, but it's definitely listenable. Does anyone know of his general approach in his software for writing music?

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