C.P.U. Bach
C.P.U. Bach | ||
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Designer(s) Sid Meier and Jeff Briggs | | |
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Release | 1994 | |
Genre(s) | Music |
C.P.U. Bach (also known as Sid Meier's C.P.U. Bach) is an interactive music-generating program designed by
Bach for various keyboard, wind, or string instruments and in a variety of forms (e.g., concerti, fugues, minuets, chorales). The compositions are then performed by the software with synchronous 3D graphics
on screen showing the virtual instruments being played.
The name of the program is a pun on the initials of one of Bach's actual sons,
CPU
".
References
- DeMaria, Rusel; Wilson, Johnny L. (December 18, 2003). High score! : The illustrated history of electronic games (2 ed.). New York [u.a.]: McGraw-Hill/Osborne. p. 190. ISBN 0-07-223172-6.
- Google Patents: System for real-time music composition and synthesis
External links
- Article on C.P.U. Bach at GameSpot
- Review of C.P.U. Bach by University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis lecturer Michel Buffa