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Bell Labs

American research laboratory where Max Mathews developed the first computer music software.

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Computation Sound

Bell Telephone Laboratories was the American industrial research lab where Max Mathews wrote MUSIC (1957), the first widely used computer program for generating sound, and where composers including James Tenney and Laurie Spiegel worked and produced early computer music through the 1960s and 70s.