blog posts Music composed by artificial intelligence? Not a new phenomenon Feb 17, 2017 11:00 am by MTV.comIllinois in the News Share on Facebook Tweet Email Images MTV (Feb. 16) The Illiac Suite, a string-quartet piece that American composers Lejaren Hiller and Leonard Isaacson created in 1957 using an early computer at Illinois, is widely considered the first computer-assisted composition. Share on Facebook Tweet Email