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Max Mathews

Country: United States

Max Mathews (1926-2011) was an American engineer and computer music pioneer, born in Columbus, Nebraska. At Bell Labs he wrote MUSIC in 1957, a program for generating music by computer, and its descendants (the MUSIC-N family, later Csound) shaped digital sound synthesis for decades. Mathews arranged the accompaniment for the 1961 Bell Labs computer voice rendition of Daisy Bell. With F. R. Moore he built GROOVE, a computer system controlling analog synthesizers in real time, later used by Laurie Spiegel.