Electronic
The world's first computer to play music was CSIRAC, which was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey and Maston Beard. In 1951 it publicly played the Colonel Bogey March, of which no known recordings exist, only the accurate reconstruction. However, CSIRAC played standard repertoire and was not used to extend musical thinking or composition practice. CSIRAC was never recorded, but the music played was accurately reconstructed. The oldest known recordings of computer-generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine from the University of Manchester in the autumn of 1951. Following his work with Studio d'Essai at Radiodiffusion Française , during the early 1940s, Pierre Schaeffer is credited with originating the theory and practice of musique concrète. Ferruccio Busoni encouraged the composition of microtonal music allowed for by electronic instruments. He predicted the use of machines in future music, writing the influential...