Bletchley Park computer

“Chip tune” electronica musician Matthew C Applegate (AKA Pixelh8) has been given access to some of the oldest computers in the world at The National Museum of Computing to produce some music.  The project, called “Obsolete?” will be followed by a series of concerts at Bletchley Park in March.

“The music of Obsolete? will be made from machines such as Colossus Mark 2, the rebuild of the world’s first programmable electronic computer used for code breaking in World War II, the Elliot 803 from the 1960s, a giant machine with only 4k of memory, and of course some vintage favourites like the BBC Micro. This will be chip tune music unlike any ever produced before. It’s a fantastic privilege to work with such unique and rare computers. For me it is the chance of a lifetime.” – Matthew C Applegate

I heard a short snippet of one of the tunes today on the radio and it sounded great.  There’s a really good article on the NMOC website about Obsolete?

Pixelh8@myspace | Pixelh8 Wikipedia | Pixelh8 website

I really like this visit us fail from the website too:

Come visit us - we're closed

• @duncanbannatyne lack of wealth can indirectly cause unhappiness so the two things are not unrelated #
• Too many psychopaths, not enough cycle paths. #
• Amazing how many of my friends are neo-Luddites. #
• I’d forgotten how good Serenity is until tonight, so many good lines. #
• Non-work friends now finding Twitter. Interesting…. Welcome chaps and chapesses! #
• Billboard said if you drive at 70mph it costs 10% more than driving at 50. At 40% faster that’s a bargain so I drove at 80. #
• Is playing football for an hour then drinking two pints and eating a chip roll good or bad for you? #
• Virgin just asked if I spend more time on t’internet or watching TV. I giggled. #
• Virgin Media that is. Not a virgin. At least not that she mentioned. #
• A Christian party? Sorry, washing my hair that night. http://tr.im/eskj #
• @darciec I couldn’t resist Googling it. Not sure what to think – except that the internet is choc full of weirdos and crap #

According to Monty Python, sales of your videos on Amazon increase by 23,000%.  Monty Python started a YouTube channel with links to the videos on Amazon and sales of their videos took off.  I think the same effect would be seen for lots of online media.  If only the music industry would put the same effort they do in trying to ban “illegal” downloads into understanding internet marketing, they’d make a lot more cash for their starving artists.  Anyway, here are some silly walks…..