"Obsolete?"

I am very excited.

Recently I Pixelh8 have had the good fortune, with the help of The National Museum of Computing and the Performing Rights Society Foundation, to have a huge music project of mine funded. The project is to write a piece of music composed from sounds from some of the rarest and earliest computers and computing devices in the world to be performed at the World War II code breaking centre Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes on March 20th and 21st 2009.

The project entitled Obsolete? will make use of machines such as Colossus Mark 2 worlds first programmable, digital, electronic, computing device used for code breaking in World War II and probably one of, if not the most significant computer in the world. Another computer to be used is Elliot 803 from 1960, a giant machine that has only 4k!!! I think its one of only three left in the world and I love it!

The blogs leading up to it have now also been declassified and can be accessed by clicking here.

On the flipside the piece will also feature several other commonplace computing devices that have either been discarded or branded as Obsolete? as time moved on, so yes I will be using the ubiquitous BBC Micro too.

This will be chip tune music but unlike any other you have ever heard.

These machines have been restored to working order and in some cases completely reconstructed by volunteers and researchers at TNMOC, and I am honoured to be associated with these hard working men and women and the unique history of Bletchley Park.

This is to be one of many computer music related projects I am hoping to bring to the museum and I am very, very excited. I strongly recommend you go and visit The National Museum of Computing in the meantime, but you wont get any more information about Obsolete? just yet, as it is classified information.

The evening will include the performance, Q&A with myself about the music, a special tour of the museum and a visit to Colossus. Only one hundred tickets per evening so hurry!

Pixelh8

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[redbulborb]

yes it is

[diabledesbois]

Yeahhh!!!!!

[CaptainWilhelm]

this is gonna be immense...

any chance of some music tech carts soon?