Computers and Automation, August 1966, cover. Front cover: Frieder Nake’s first-prize computer drawing, composed of small squares.

01 / 09Computers and Automation, August 1966. Front cover: Frieder Nake’s first-prize computer drawing, composed of small squares.

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Computers and Automation, August 1966

August 1966

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Frieder Nake’s winning contest issue, with additional Nake drawings, analog and digital graphics, and Gerald Strang’s account of computer-assisted musical composition and sound synthesis.

Author / editor: Edmund C. Berkeley, editor and publisher
Publisher: Berkeley Enterprises, Inc.
Newtonville, Massachusetts, USA
Format: Digitized illustrated magazine
Pages: 52
Language: English
Edition: Vol. 15, no. 8

The August 1966 issue awards first prize to Frieder Nake. His square-based winning drawing appears on the cover and page 8; three additional Nake drawings appear on pages 8 and 12. The contest section, pages 8–13, places these alongside analog-computer patterns, geometric constructions, and plotting experiments by other contributors.

Gerald Strang’s “The Computer in Musical Composition,” pages 16–17, distinguishes computer-assisted score production from synthesized sound. It discusses Hiller and Isaacson’s work at the University of Illinois and Max Mathews’s work at Bell Telephone Laboratories, placing visual and musical experimentation within the same issue.

The gallery includes the front cover, the complete contest feature on pages 8–13, and Strang’s article on pages 16–17.

Works reproduced in the gallery

Cover and p. 8: Frieder Nake’s prize-winning small-square drawing, reproduced without a title.
P. 8: A second drawing by Frieder Nake, reproduced without a title.
P. 9: Maughan S. Mason, Silk Patterns (two drawings).
P. 10: Peter Milojevic, Cubic Figures (two drawings).
P. 11: C. K. Messinger, Logarithmic Spiral; L. W. Barnum, Ellipse by Error.
P. 12: Two further drawings by Frieder Nake, reproduced without individual titles: an angular line composition and a composition of hatched rectangles.
P. 13: Peter Milojevic, Ellipses and Circles; D. K. Robbins, Rosette.

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