With technology infused into almost every aspect or our daily existence, it is hardly surprising that this advance has finally emerged. This audio clip was made by what is essentially a robot… a computer named Iamus. It has fooled many experts…

Iamus is the creation of computer scientist Francisco Vico and his collaborators at the University of Malaga in Spain. It also has a younger sibling, called Melomics109, which composes ‘popular’ music.

You might think that any serious composers would turn up their noses at music made by a computer algorithm. But a few are already taking Iamus’s ideas very seriously. In 2012, a CD showcasing Iamus’s compositions featured performances by some of the world’s top musicians, including the London Symphony Orchestra. One of the other musicians to appear on the recording was Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, a composer and concert pianist at the Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco, in Spain, who is even using Iamus to write an opera that premieres next year.

While there have been numerous attempts to make music through a computer since computing was invented, this is the first one to make such inroads into the music world and get such recognition.

Full story at BBC.