Max Mathews

…at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, Max Vernon Mathews and his coworkers devised a computer capable of synthesizing sound directly. The composer’s input, in the form of mathematical functions, is translated by the computer into synthesized musical sounds that are stored in digital form and can be played back at will.…

…in the United States by Max Mathews and his colleagues at Bell Telephone Laboratories in the early 1960s. The best known version of the programming that activated the process was called Music 5.