Editing Electronic music (section)

===Australia===
[[File:CSIRAC.jpg|thumb|CSIRAC, Australia's first digital computer, displayed at the [[Melbourne Museum]]]]

The world's first computer to play music was [[CSIRAC]], which was designed and built by [[Trevor Pearcey]] and Maston Beard. Mathematician Geoff Hill programmed the CSIRAC to play popular musical melodies from the very early 1950s. In 1951 it publicly played the [[Colonel Bogey March]], of which no known recordings exist, only the accurate reconstruction.{{sfn|Doornbusch|2005|p=25}} However, [[CSIRAC]] played standard repertoire and was not used to extend musical thinking or composition practice. CSIRAC was never recorded, but the music played was accurately reconstructed. The oldest known recordings of computer-generated music were played by the [[Ferranti Mark 1]] computer, a commercial version of the [[Manchester Baby|Baby]] Machine from the [[Victoria University of Manchester|University of Manchester]] in the autumn of 1951.<ref name="Fildes2008">{{harvnb|Fildes|2008}}</ref> The music program was written by [[Christopher Strachey]].