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I remember ripping songs in AudioMaster 2 on the Amiga with a sound digitizer, and writing them to floppy as a playable stream. You could boot the A500 with the disk and play back the digitized song. I think that was the point that it dawned on me where music was headed but not the form it would take. This was around 1990.

Didn't he also bring out a song where the lyrics were algorithmically generated?

Verbasizer - a sentence randomizer app he designed for writing the album’s lyrics.

See too Gysin/Burroughs c. 1959.[0]

Bowie would have been ~12yo.

[0] https://www.languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques...

Apt reference to Burroughs, as he and Bowie ended up meeting in the early/mid '70s, and Bowie employed the cut-up technique somewhat often on his albums afterwards (starting with Diamond Dogs, if I'm not mistaken). So the Verbasizer was essentially Bowie's attempt to modernize a creative process he was already very fond of.

Or the CD-ROM where you could edit your own video for Jump They Say?? Crazy times….