The Copeland-Long restoration of the earliest known recording of computer music, recorded at Alan Turing's Computing Machine Laboratory in Manchester in 1951. Read Copeland and Long's fascinating blog account of the all-night programming session which led to its creation, and Turing's reaction on hearing it the following morning:  http://blogs.bl.uk/sound-and-vision/2016/09/restoring-the-first-recording-of-computer-music.html

First known recording of computer music, 1951

Here's a bonus track that's not on the album but was recorded the same night as Prime Time in Sydney.

Dale Barlow - Tenor Saxophone
John Harkins - Piano
Brendan Clarke - Bass
Joe Farnsworth - Drums

Brendan Clarke & Joe Farnsworth - 01 - Breakthrough

Brendan Clarke is a jazz double bassist, composer, educator and band leader based in Sydney Australia.

Brendan Clarke & Joe Farnsworth - 01 - Breakthrough

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