Machine-made music - Tech weekly podcast

West End musical Beyond the Fence claims to be the world’s first computer-generated musical. What’s the potential for music made by machine?

The Telegraph said it ‘held up against rivals like Mrs Henderson Presents’. The Guardian wrote that ‘a strong cast gave the piece some welly’. The Independent said Beyond the Fence ‘won them over’.

All the more remarkable then, that new musical Beyond the Fence claims to be conceived, written and composed by a computer.