Music has always been one of the most human of arts — a delicate dance of melody, harmony, rhythm, and emotion that seemed impossible for machines to truly understand. Yet the journey of AI music generation began quietly decades ago. In 1957, Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson wrote the Illiac Suite — the first musical composition created by a computer — using an algorithm at the University of Illinois. Through the 1960s and 1970s, computer-generated music evolved with pioneers like Max Mathews at Bell Labs inventing digital synthesis.
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