Students at George Washington Preparatory High School in Los Angeles are learning how to compose their own music on computers, thanks to a program supported by a local music company. M-Audio, a ...

Could computers replace human composers? We may be closer than you think. Over at Slate, Chris Wilson tells how composer David Cope came to invent "the world's most musically creative computer program ...

HAMBURG (dpa) – Imagine being able to compose like Beethoven, just once. Or like Johann Sebastian Bach. Or even Oasis. That’s the dream of many musically-talented computer users. That’s also why ...

THESE DAYS, anyone with a computer can be a composer. Sort of. Give a piece of commercial software such as Magenta, developed by Google, the first few notes of a song, and it will make something ...

The second Tuesday of October is Ada Lovelace Day, a day first founded in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson to celebrate the achievements of women in science. It’s named after Ada Lovelace, who is widely ...

Music is a necessity in modern games, setting the mood for the scene, characters, or even the entire narrative. And while plenty of developers are more than satisfied with a score that's just good ...

Renowned composer Laurie Spiegel marks the 40th anniversary of Music Mouse, discussing the unique aspects of "algorithmic" music in contrast to AI-generated sounds.

Walnut Middle School GarageBand students have been meeting since Friday not in an empty garage, but in the school library, to compose their own music. Vocal music teacher Kay Lyons said the classes ...