Bad at Sports » Daisy Bell http://badatsports.com Contemporay art talk without the ego Mon, 21 May 2012 16:18:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Tuesday’s Video Pick | 11.3.09 http://badatsports.com/2009/tuesdays-video-pick-11-3-09/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss http://badatsports.com/2009/tuesdays-video-pick-11-3-09/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:36:39 +0000 Meg Onli http://badatsports.com/?p=11238

This may be revealing a bit too much but after watching this video yesterday over on Boing Boing I felt utter heartbreak. Who knew the IBM 7094 could induce such an emotional response?

via slavenr88

“Daisy Bell was composed by Harry Dacre in 1892. In 1961, the IBM 7094 became the first computer to sing, singing the song Daisy Bell. Vocals were programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum and the accompaniment was programmed by Max Mathews. This performance was the inspiration for a similar scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey.”

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