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Reas also mints under the name @csrsnt, revealed in 2023 after two years of anonymity.
The name came from an autocorrect of โCasey Reas,โ but also from poetry: a caesura is a pause, a structural break.
Interruption. Glitch. System rupture.
CSRSNT-DAAI-054-of-128, @csrsnt, 2022 โ on @versumofficial
Acquired by @lerandomart on May 28, 2023
Reas's AAI series originates from his collaboration with Jan St. Werner of the electronic music duo Mouse on Mars. The series is a direct evolution Reas developed for that collaboration. In 1957, Max Mathews was the first to demonstrate computer synthesized music:
1957: Max Mathews Develops MUSIC I
"Mathews, computer music pioneer, developed the computer music composition language on an IBM 704 while at Bell Labs.
MUSIC I was the first demonstration of computer synthesized music.
Mathews himself described the development:
โComputer performance of music was born in 1957 when an IBM 704 in NYC played a 17 second composition on the Music I program which I wrote. The timbres and notes were not inspiring, but the technical breakthrough is still reverberating.โ"