Do you know that computer are used in music? The computers have huge fields of application, and music is one of them. The music created in computer in my opinion is incredible good. After research I found that computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition. It include the theory and application of new and existing technologies and basic aspects of music. For example, acoustic, sound design, sonic diffusion, and digital signal processing, sound synthesis.
The computer music has it origins in electronic music. Japan was the first country in experiments on computer music in 1962 when they experimented with the Tosbac computer. This resulted in a piece entitled Tosbac Suite .Since then, Japanese research in computer music has largely been carried out for commercial purposes in popular music. Early computer-music programs typically did not run in real time. Programs would run for hours or days, on multi-million-dollar computers, to generate a few minutes of music. John Chowning's work on FM synthesis from the 1960s to the 1970s allowed much more efficient digital synthesis, eventually leading to the development of the affordable FM synthesis-based Yamaha DX7 digital synthesizer, released in 1983. Also, the advent of inexpensive digital chips and microcomputers opened the door to real-time generation of computer music. In the 1980s, Japanese personal computers such as the NEC PC-88 came installed with FM synthesis sound chips and featured audio programming languages such as Music Macro Language(MML) and MIDI interfaces. In1990s, the performance of microprocessor-based computers reached the point that real-time generation of computer music using more general programs and algorithms became possible.
Today the advances in computer power and software for manipulation of digital change the way computer music is generated and performed. The current generation micro computers are powerful enough to perform sophisticated audio synthesis using a wide variety of algorithms. The activity in this field of computer music is considerable, as researches continue to pursue new and interesting computer-based synthesis, composition and performance approaches. There are many organizations and institutions dedicated to the area of computer and electronic music study, including associations and institutions.
In conclusion, computer –generated music is music composed by, or with the extensive aid of a computer .Although any music which uses computers in its composition or realization is computer-generated to some extent, the use of computers is now so widespread in the world in editing of pop songs that the phrase computer-generated music is generally used to mean a kind of music which could not have been created without the use of computers We can distinguish two groups of computer-generated music: music in which a computer generated the score, which could be performed by humans, and music which is both composed and performed by computers. There is a large genre of music that is organized, synthesized, and created on computers. Amateurs and professionals use digital recording software to mix music, in addition to recording. The software allows people to add touches like reverb, echo, distortion and vocal processing. DJs and remix use software to create new versions of popular songs thanks to the use of computer in music.