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Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret"

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  • Presented by Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futurist

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A young Ray Kurzweil appears on a 1965 game show to demonstrate a computer-generated music piece composed by a program he built.

Inventor, author and futurist Ray Kurzweil appeared on I've Got a Secret in 1965 when he was 17 years old.

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What people say. Shared as a fascinating historical artifact of early computer music and algorithmic composition by a young Ray Kurzweil.

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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... link to this video
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Related, mind blown that kurzweil made programmed music in this presentation in 1965. link to this video He was ~17 in that video, and he built the computer as well.
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On “How I Taught My Computer to Write Its Own Music”

I immediately thought of Ray Kurzweil when he played music that was written by a computer he programmed in 1965 in which he demonstrated on the game show I've Got a Secret. I'd say with all of these responses, we've progressed quite a bit. link to this video
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On “What makes music sound “good?””

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