THEN GOTO 1980

"THEN GOTO 1980"

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Pixelh8s most recent work Obsolete? is a audio and visual study of the people, machines, history of The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park and looks closely at the themes of mathematics, logic, code-breaking and enciphering. The project was funded by the PRS Foundations new music award and commissioned by The National Museum of Computing.

The music itself is composed using some of the oldest and rarest computers in the world such as the WWII code-breaking machine Colossus Mark 2 Rebuild, and the 1960s Elliott 803 largely used for mathematics and some of the more commonplace machines such as the BBC Micro. With over thirty machines studied and utilised within the music, it is a combination of both sounds from the internal sound chips and the external electro-mechanical sounds. In addition to this, the piece also utilises such items as the early non-electrical mechanical adding machines.

The project was comprised of twelves pieces of music and accompanying visuals and culminated in two performances at the prestigious Bletchley Park Mansion on March 20th and 21st, 2009.

All imagery and music © & (P) Hidden Youth Records UK 2009

Category:

Music

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• pixelh8
• chip tune
• chiptune
• electronica
• obsolete
• tnmoc

[OfficialDJDSign]

damn, id love that game, love to see oldschool

[SteveBenway]

This is excellent.

I've been to see that Colossus 2 machine at Bletchly Park... quite an amazing machine.

[cheesepiratedotcom]

Wonderful

[YourGettingFat]

AWESOME :D:D:D

[insanity54]

Now that's some wicked ish right there! It's super cool how sounds from the, "non-electrical mechanical adding machines" were used as percussion! Plus, someone actually made a simple platformer game for this video, didn't they!

[binboyuk]

sounds amazing.

and i was mesmerized by the video. i found myself sitting here stuck to the screen.

[inphanta]

Keep up the good work, my man! ;)