I'd like to get my feet wet with computer music, but I'm not ready to plunk down the cash for any of the fancy software (MAX...). It doesn't help that I'm also using a PC. I'd like to do weird stuff ...

A mathematician and a musician have teamed up to create a new computer program that both composes music and creates the instrumentation to play it. The software is available for free from ...

You can download music from Google Play Music for offline listening on many different devices, including the iPhone. Here's ...

Writer and musician David Was introduces a composer who has developed a computer system that plays along with a human musician. The computer matches the musician's improvisations with riffs of its own ...

With the right computer program, proteins become pleasant music. There are many surprising analogies between proteins, the basic building blocks of life, and musical notation. These analogies can be ...

His EMI algorithm, an early form of artificial intelligence that he developed in the 1980s, prompted searching questions about the limits of human creativity. By Miguel Salazar David Cope, a composer ...