Bell Laboratories, Tape 1 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
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Recording number 5045. Note on tape case reads: "Played by IBM 7090 computer and digital to sound transducer." There are 29 cuts from various composer. Recorded at the Bell Laboratories.
Cuts: 1) Frere Jacques; 2) Orlando Gibbons - Fantasia; 3) Max Vernon Mathews - Numerology; 4) Max Vernon Mathews - May Carol; 5) Max Vernon Mathews - Bicylcle Built for Two; 6) Max Vernon Mathews - The Second Law; 7) Max Vernon Mathews - Joy to the World; 8) John Robinson Pierce - Variations in Timbre & Attack; 9) John Robinson Pierce - Stochatta; 10) John Robinson Pierce - Five Against Seven: Random Canon; 11) John Robinson Pierce - Beat Cannon; 12) John Robinson Pierce - Molto Amoroso; 13) John Robinson Pierce - Melodie; 14) David Lewin - Study No. 1; 15) David Lewin - Study No. 2; 16) Newman Guttman - Pitch Variations; 17) S.D. Speeth - Theme and Variations; 18) Newman Guttman - Computer Piece #2; 19) John Robinson Pierce and Claude Shannon - Random Music Piece for Piano; 20) David Slepian - Stochastic Music; 21) Gerald Strang - Piece for the IBM 7090; 22) Gerald Strang - Fibres; 23) Gerald Strang - Clusters; 24) Gerald Strang - Composition #3; 25) Gerald Strang - Composition #2; 26) Gerald Schwarz and Max Vernon Mathews - Canzoni Personal a Quattro; 27) John Ward - Fantasia; 28) Max Vernon Mathews - Quartet in F - M.Ravel; 29) Max Vernon Mathews - Sech Bagatellen - A. Webern.
Series 3: Audio and Audio Visual Recordings, ca. 1924-2016
Sub-Series 1: Cataloged Audio Recordings, ca. 1955-1999
Box 7
Item 4: Bell Laboratories (Various Composers), undated