Tomandandy

tomandandy is a musical ensemble formed in 1989 in New York City by Thomas Hajdu and Andy Milburn. The duo is best known for their work in film scores and television commercials. tomandandy has also focused on artificial intelligence and content generation, holding the broad patent (US 6.051.770) "artificial composer" that is based on a series of groundbreaking musical metrics. Andy Milburn was born in Texas and went to Princeton University for u... more

tomandandy is a musical ensemble formed in 1989 in New York City by Thomas Hajdu and Andy Milburn. The duo is best known for their work in film scores and television commercials. tomandandy has also focused on artificial intelligence and content generation, holding the broad patent (US 6.051.770) "artificial composer" that is based on a series of groundbreaking musical metrics. Andy Milburn was born in Texas and went to Princeton University for undergraduate as well as graduate work. At Princeton, his primary focus was creating computer music and computer music applications. During that time, he helped build the early computer music system called "CMIX". Thomas Hajdu was born in Canada and moved to the US to work on his graduate studies at Princeton University. While at Princeton University, the duo began collaborating on small pieces of music which consisted of bits of disjunct sounds. They called these pieces "Blasts" and while blasts were completely unsuccessful when performed in... less