#IBM 7094

[iphigeniacomplex]

eleven year old girl at a sleepover excitedly describing her celebrity crush but as she continues to be pressed for details by the other girls it slowly becomes clear that she is talking about the ibm 7094, popularly known as the first computer to sing

[littledemo0n]

Colombian american Miku! My very late addition to the trend! Featuring simplified recreations of personal experiences i've gone through

[kyuroon]

Humans decided to give a computer a voice and the first thing they had it do was sing a love song...

[magicalgirlartist]

[ID: digital drawing of Miku, leaning over the back of an IBM 7094 computer, smiling and looking down at it. There is a coffee mug that says "World's Greatest Grandpa" on the front of the IBM. The background is a blue circle with a white daisy in it, surrounded by the words "Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do" and music notes around the outside. End ID.]

I made a sticker of Miku and her grandpa :) the Miku/IBM Daisy Bell duet is one of my favourite things in the world

[Commissions open!]

[cherryechogalaxy]

In celebration of Miku day, have my personal Miku! She’s based on Daisy Bell from IBM-7094 :)

[lookforpornography-mastrubation]

LOOK FOR PORNOGRAPHY FOR MASTRUBATION

LOOK FOR PORNOGRAPHY TO MASTRUBATE TO

[snailfen]

IM GONNA CRYYYY AUGHHHHH MIKU AND HER GRANDPA <:)

[carolineisntdeleted]

Miku?

A robot built for singing.. how cool! A fancy IBM 7094!! Miku is very cute, and a great suggestion. I wonder if we could use something like her as a mascot here at our facility? Maybe singing machines could boost employee moral ✨️. I'd love to experiment more with technology like her!

[suddenlymicah]

just found out hatsune mikus grandpa(ibm 7094) worked for nasa and also was the one that sang daisy bell thats so cute im dying. he worked so hard to sing that song and it turned into a creepypasta weirdcore song. please let him be happy with his granddaughter and if anyone wants the link of them singing daisy bell as a duet i have a link. its so cute

[chaoticallyimpulsiveart]

I saw someone post saying “Imagine mikus grandpa singing this to her in a rocking chair.” I had to draw it. Cutest idea ever.

+Tiktok+Instagram+

[0-the-party-0]

Theoretical family tree

[amethystsoda]

miku + grandpa 🧡🩵

[justaboutdead]

House of Leaves, 2001, and Daisy Bell (and why its not creepy)

(Fairly minor) Spoilers for House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski and 2001: a Space Odyssey by Stanley Kubrick

About 500 pages into House of Leaves, Will Navidson begins falling. Alone in the twisting labyrinthine corridors of the House, he is alone, out of supplies, by all metrics thoroughly and definitively defeated. The floor suddenly disappears beneath him and he begins to fall. And there it is, vertically stark against the white page, as many lines are in this section, falling just as he is.

“Daisy. Daisy. Daisy. Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do. I’m half crazy over the love of you. That’s not right.”

Daisy Bell was written in 1892 by composer Frank Dean under the pen name Harry Dacre. A relatively prolific composer at the time, he is thought to have written the song about Daisy Greville, the Countess of Warwick at the time, although evidence for this factoid is sketch at best, and the lyrics directly contradict this reading.

Daisy Bell is a very simple romance song that tells a very endearing story of a young couple’s romance, being unable to afford much more than the eponymous “bicycle built for two.” There’s also an often ignored line about how they will both “despise Policemen and lamps as well.” Even from a modern perspective this song feels really intimate and cute, expressing joy despite poverty, in the policemen line even expressing disgust at cops and urbanization without care for the environment.

Through a variety of circumstances, Daisy Bell, despite this global appeal, has become primarily associated with advances in computing, being the first song to be synthesized by a computer in 1961 on an IBM 7094, and references to this development persist.

The resilience of references to this accomplishment are remarkably popular, primarily due to Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: a Space Odyssey in which the computer HAL 9000 sings the opening lines of the song as he is deactivated, calling back to the IBM demo, which Clarke himself had witnessed.

This rendition, and the original synthesized rendition are often described as creepy and off putting, but I find them strangely endearing. The original version represents a massive leap in computing, its few seconds of audio, and is extremely imperfect. The choice of Daisy Bell, and simple live song from a hundred years ago also helps to humanize the voice singing it. HAL 9000’s rendition is pained, sung as he looses his memory and cognitive functions in what feels like an eternity, in both novel and film. HAL 9000 is a painfully sympathetic character for me. While in the film his intentions remain fairly ambiguous, in the novel they come from a conflict in his instructions, and how he chooses to navigate around those instructions, interpreting them extremely literally being a computer.

It is clear that the intention with the character was to present an uncanny valley human-like consciousness, but honestly a lot of the time it just reads like he’s on the spectrum. He speaks extremely deliberately with awkward pacing. He reflects, in many ways my own anxieties about being excluded, as-well as a very human survival instinct. He is a bad liar, and extremely trepidatious about the task he believes he has to do. He reads in many ways as I would expect a human to in a position of such intense responsibility.

Thus HAL 9000’s final song to me Isn’t creepy, its confirmation of just how human he is. It is, distinctly, something he asks to sing, he almost reads as excited to show it off. It is fitting that the last song he sings is the first song a computer ever sung. I care way more about HAL than I do any of the other characters in the movie, despite his atrocious actions. In many ways he seems the most human, and I think that was part of the point.

My favorite rendition of the song comes from this popular lineage of synthesized version. Tamachang’s Daisy Bell from Future Music With Future VOICES is hauntingly beautiful. Composed of three synthesized voices, that of IBM 7094, Vocoder, and Vocaloid 4 Cyber Diva, as a fusion of old and new, it’s genuinely a really beautiful piece. Each voice has its own unique qualities, all of which lend the song distinctly different emotion.

The narrative I like to imagine is one i have seen dozens of comments on the song mentioning, and stems from the fact that Cyber Diva sounds far more youthful than the other two. In this framing, it is a newer computer saying goodbye to her old relatives as they die, via singing an extremely human cheesy love-song with them. All of these narratives around computers and Daisy Bell are a byproduct of our tendency to over-anthropomorphize computers.

House of Leaves, on the other hand, seeks to draw on themes completely unrelated to the long lineage of robotic Daisy Bells. My first thought when I saw the line in the novel, was of Navidson’s daughter, Daisy. I could see this having been a lullaby, sung to her as he put her to bed. I do not believe this reading to be the most compelling, however. The novel does not spend much time on Navidson’s children.

An often cited fact about the novel, and the Navidson record in particular is that its actually primarily a love story. I believe this to be a far more compelling understanding of the song’s conclusion. Will and Karen Navidson have been through hell together, and this song, sung when things seem darkest, as Navidson falls, as we latter understand, towards his wife, is the subtle confirmation, that despite everything they’ve been through, they will be ok.

House of Leaves, in general, is about, on some level, love (not just romantic) in the face of adversity, both through the lens of the Navidsons troubled reparation of their relationship, as well as Johnny’s slow collapse and our eventual understanding of his past. Daisy Bell is a perfect expression of the realization of these themes. That love can persist even when circumstances seem dire, and can in fact help you through those circumstances. A relatively simple message, but with many complexities

Thank you for entertaining my over-analysis :)

Fav Daisy Bell:

Original synthesized Daisy Bell:

Daisy Bell Hall 9000:

[curlyquest]

-Miku and her Grandpa-

[2aben]

Sorry for not posting, I didn't draw digitally for the last few days so here's some doodles!!

Yuri 🤯

I wanted to draw IBM 7094 and Miku cuz I like the hc that he's her grandad

And Rabbit Hole Miku wow

I post daily doodles on Instagram so please consider following me there since Instagram's algorithm isn't helping me at all: @sabys_art /

https://www.instagram.com/sabys_art/profilecard/?igsh=ZWU4dTR0ZWM4bGdj

[mags2theythem]

The ibm 7094 and the classic Ai voice as vocaloids