Computer music, an offshoot of electronic music, first reached a mass public in 1968, when HAL the computer sang "Bicycle Built for Two" in the film "2001" in a version synthesized by that towering figure of early music software, Max V. Mathews.
But since he did not want to get involved, the friend who owned the computer sang like a canary and ratted her out.
Can you imagine what this cat would look like if it were present at a performance of "old computers singing Bohemian Rhapsody"?
Darkstar, meanwhile, are finishing a debut album in which they "try to make computers sing", and Kode9 himself is preparing new material of the tribal, woozy house variety seen in his agenda-setting single Black Sun.
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Years ago, Yamaha developed Vocaloid, musical software that lets computers sing with synthesized voices.
The implications of Mr. Mathews's early research reached popular audiences through the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey," in which the HAL 9000 computer sings "Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)" as its cognitive functions are dismantled.
"Within minutes, the computer was singing like a professional!" A Vocaloid version of the song "Amazing Grace" -- recorded with prototype technology, yet still more human sounding than any previous vocal synthesis -- was released on Yamaha's Web site shortly after the conference.
"It's the song Hal the computer was singing while it was dying under the hand of man.
Onstage Mr. Merziger was stationed at a console, keyboards and computers, occasionally singing into a microphone to produce filtered vocals.
