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Later, composers such as Gottfried Michael Koenig had computers generate the sounds of the composition as well as the score.

Koenig produced algorithmic composition programs which were a generalisation of his own serial composition practice.

This is not exactly similar to Xenakis ' work as he used mathematical abstractions and examined how far he could explore these musically.

Koenig's software translated the calculation of mathematical equations into codes which represented musical notation.

This could be converted into musical notation by hand and then performed by human players.

His programs Project 1 and Project 2 are examples of this kind of software.

Later, he extended the same kind of principles into the realm of synthesis, enabling the computer to produce the sound directly.

SSP is an example of a program which performs this kind of function.

All of these programs were produced by Koenig at the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht in the 1970s.