Bell Telephone Laboratories

Bell Telephone Laboratories was, for a few decades, the most important music studio that wasn't one. Max Mathews (1926–2011), directing its acoustics research, made an IBM 704 play 17 seconds of music in 1957 with MUSIC I — the birth of computer-performed music — and his MUSIC-N programs powered the Music From Mathematics era on the IBM 7090. In the famous 1961 "Daisy Bell" demonstration the synthesized voice was the work of John Kelly and Carol Lochbaum (Mathews arranged the accompaniment — the voice is commonly misattributed to him alone); Arthur C. Clarke heard it, and HAL sang it dying in 2001. The single-sided Computer Speech 7-inch here is that program's demonstration disc.

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