Life & fun · September 27, 2017
Triadex Muse in a Browser
Triadex Muse in a Browser launched on September 27, 2017 with 32 votes, #783 of 3,072 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.
In plain words
Triadex Muse in a Browser is a JavaScript recreation of the original 1969 Triadex Muse, a digital algorithmic music composer designed by Marvin Minsky and Edward Fredkin at MIT. It runs entirely in a web browser, allowing users to experience the classic device's music composition capabilities without needing the original hardware. The software is featured in an exhibition called "AI: More than Human" at the Barbican Centre in London and the Groninger Forum in the Netherlands, making this piece of computing history accessible to a wide audience.
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From the sources
The JavaScript Muse is included in an exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London called AI: More than Human , running from May 16 to August 26. After that, the exhibit will be traveling to the Groninger Forum , the Netherlands. This is a software simulation of the Triadex Muse that runs in a browser. The Muse was a digital algorithmic music composer invented in 1969 by Marvin Minsky and Edward Fredkin at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was built with the digital logic circuitry of the day; gates, registers, and counters in simple integrated circuits. While strongly associated with electronic music, The Muse was not a "synthesizer" as it only played a fixed level square wave.…from till.com
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