Originally published at: First Singing Computer That Inspired Kubrick's HAL 9000 (1968) - Boing Boing
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I will have to watch later. Though the post graphic that seems to show how a person talks, reminds me of this old 3 2 1 Contact segment that was my first introduction with a talking computer. It too is from Bell Labs!
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Max Matthews! Computer music pioneer and namesake of the Max/MSP music software suite
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Was gonna say. Also wrote MUSIC I. I don’t think he developed the multiple iterations but he was there at the beginning. He moved on to live performance stuff (he played the fiddle iirc). I also think that he didn’t make the system that bicycle made for two was generated on just that song.
Legend has it that Arthur C Clarke suggested it to Kubrick rather than the film.
Kubrick of course was a genuine music aficionado so may well have been well aware of it. Like Miller Puckette did of course when he named Max as homage to Matthews.
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