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In 1957, Max Mathews, an acoustic researcher at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, wrote Music I and used it to generate the first examples of digital audio. During the next years, he finished Music II, Music III, and Music IV.
In 1964, Jean-Claude Risset arrived at Bell Labs and used Music IV to digitize the sound of a trumpet. It was the first successful digital reproduction of a brass instrument. It also marked the beginning of acoustic research linked to digital synthesis. Max Mathews, Joan Miller, and others produced, among other things, a computer voice singing 'Bicycle Built for Two'.
Bicycle Built for Two
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In the photo at the left, Jean-Claude Risset explains a computer- synthesized trumpet tone to a group of colleagues at Bell Labs in 1964.
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