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Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"

Sidewinder77 · 209.7K views · 2007-04-18 · 3:21

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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.

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

Recommended by 2 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2012–2016

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KyleBrandt · 2016-09 · Recommendation

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

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mixmax · 2012-10 · Recommendation

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... [VIDEO]

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steveeq1 · 2016-07 · Reference

Ray Kurzweil seems to have made a passable song using a computer: [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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