Daisy Bell

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“Daisy Bell” is the first song a computer ever sang, and the one HAL 9000 sings as it’s shut down in 2001: A Space Odyssey. SAM only speaks text, it has no idea what a musical note is, so this reads the melody straight out of a MIDI file and sings it syllable by syllable, one note’s pitch and duration at a time.

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