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In 1974, the firs ICMC took place at Michigan State University, back then organized by David Wessel. Since then, many leading technologies, path-providing thoughts and influential music was presented. The sheer number of papers and music presented at all these ICMCs is mind blowing. For this issue, we invited colleagues that have been involved shaping the community around the International Computer Music Conference and Association through out these years to recommended papers that have been published at ICMCs to republish them. We provide some thoughts on the selection as well as comments from the authors on their papers if feasible. The 16 articles presented in this issue are definitely not a comprehensive selection, but we hope, they can provide glimpses on at least some of the highlights we could experience in the last 50 years.