Very pleased about being featured in the Spring 2009 issue A WHOLE PAGE!, yes I won’t say much about it but I am very very pleased electronic music is being taken a lot more seriously, thank you Musicians Union you have been incredibly supportive from the very beginning.

It was good fun going back, I hadn’t been there in a while. Some of the students who attended last year came in and sat it again on the lecture again, they had been following what I was doing since I had last been there and had quite a few questions. There is always a good feeling about the place. We talked about circuit bending, chip tune music, bit crushing, infrasound, found sound and more. All in all it was another good fun day of talking about music. If your into making music and live in or around York it’s a good place to check out, their website is here. I will post a picture soon.

Well actually two, I visited local Sprites Primary School in my hometown of Ipswich for two guest lectures on computer music back to back, covering circuit bending, chip tune music, sound effects and sound editing. They were great, it was two groups of 7-8 year olds and they all seemed to like it especially getting to play on my DS, Game Boys and keyboards to make very loud sounds.  Teacher Miss. Laverack said it was “A fantastic opportinity to make an ICT lesson creative and up to the minute. Two subjects in one with a homegrown talent” all in all it was very good fun. Some brilliant questions from some very bright kids.

Ada Lovelace was arguably the worlds first programmer, she theorised computers would be used for Mathematics/Science and Music before they were invented. Whislt working on “Obsolete?”  I found this quite inspirational, because at The National Museum of Computers in Bletchley Park we have Scientists and Mathematicians and I was the one fortunate enough to bring the music to the equation.

I mention this idea in both of my video interviews for BBC here and ZDNet.co.uk.

She was an amazing woman.

I am gonna write this right now, I am absolutely shattered but at the same time wide awake and excited. It was a success, people really enjoyed and I enjoyed it too. The museum was full after a sold out performance at the Mansion. The Elliott 803 was working and playing music!!! The ICL was spinning and the IRIS was on too, and there were volunteers everywhere talking and demoing the machines, so the visitors had the full audio/visual experience of it all.

It was great as I got to see alot of friends I hadn’t seen in a while and Imogen Heap made an appearance and we got to have quite a good chat about music, machines and things to come too.

There will undoubtedly be load of pictures from the event apearing on Flickr soon and I will link to them as well.

Thanks to all of the volunteers and staff of both The National Museum of Computing and Bletchley Park, it was a wonderful evening.

What can I say apart from it went, exactly as intended.  Pretty much a full house and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The room was pitch black apart from the visuals and I could make out faces every now and then, that were transfixed to the screen.

I had been up since 6.30am as I was so excited, so by about 10pm I was absolutely exhausted. I did Q&A afterwards and a tour of the museum.

I was interviewed by Dan Damon of BBC World Service, Future Music, Goldsmiths Radio, ZDNet.co.uk and several more did loads of photoshoots.  At the end I was happy it went well and I was happy to get back to the hotel, eat cookies and sleep. But I left the laptop on and got loads of nice emails and twitters, which I woke up to peek at every now and then.

More of the same tonight but with a full house, pictures will be about on the net soon, as we have a Flickr group arriving, and loads more press.

Just hanging out at The National Museum of Computing now and Just got to meet Peter Onion creator of the Elliott 803 emulator, a fantastic man who is very knowledgable about the 803. Also bumped into Dr Sue Black at lunch who has been helping raising awareness of TNMOC and Bletchley Park.

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Dazed & Confused Magazine

Check it out!, very pleased with this interview some interesting and challenging questions and even more interesting and challenging anwers. A little bit freaked out about being in both Dazed & Confused and New Scientist in the same week, not sure what that means, or if it means anything.

It was good fun to do though.

Out Now!!! This is what it looks like, commit it to memory.

Dazed & Confused Magazine cover reproduced with permission.

Also I have just been listed as guest of the month by the PRS Foundation you can read more here.

Did my interview with BBC 6 Music’s Tom Robinson :) but sadly I didn’t make it to the BBC, will definitely have to make sure I meet him in person soon and say, thank you, he has been a huge supporter of not just me and my music but but new music in general. The interview goes out on his show Monday @ 01:00 – 03:00 and you can find out more info here. You can listen again as well after the show from the BBC Website here t’s about 30 minutes through.

Also on March 16th be sure to check out BBC Radio 4 @ 16:30-17:00 I did an interview with the very excellent Rupert Goodwins of ZDNet.co.uk a for show called “Click On” it’s all about “Obsolete?” and The National Museum of Computing for more info visit their website here.

Also this just in!!! check out www.newscientist.com I am on the front page :)

Very excited tickets for the Saturday March 21st performance have sold out and Friday looks set to as well,  I have been in the studio making last minute tweaks and edits whilst receiving updates and it’s really great news.

I have to head off to London tomorrow to BBC 6 Music to be interviewed by Tom Robinson of BBC 6 Music who has been supportive of my music and played a few of my tracks over the last year, so it will nice to meet him in person. Eagerly awaiting the arrival of the new March 14th issue of New Scientist Magazine as well as the new Dazed & Confused, it’s all been great these last couple of weeks and met some really interesting people.

Be sure to check out BBC Radio 4 on the March 16th here I did an interview with the very excellent Rupert Goodwins of ZDNet.co.uk a for show called “Click On” it’s all about “Obsolete?” and The National Museum of Computing.

Well thats it for today!

Don’t panic, I know it’s all gone a bit quiet on the production front thats just cause I am so busy tweaking and doing the visuals. Very pleased, word is getting out about the performances and it looks like quite a few people are talking about it.

“More Math” has been extended and I have decided my current favorite machine at the moment is this the Brunsviga adding machine which is capable of a vast array of clicks and whizzes and is the main instrument in “More Math“.

So tomorrow I will be back at it, working on the visuals and tweaking the music here and there. I won’t be giving too much away in any of the blogs before the performance either you’ll just have to come along and see and hear it.