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Terrence O'Brien
“Until now, creativity has been stifled by the need to acquire playing skills.”

The BBC’s hottest take in 1986 about kids making music on computers is, let’s say, questionable. But watching kids create a composition in this recently dug up clip on what appears to be a Yamaha CX5M and seeing how far music software has come is fascinating.

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