Thanks for Kirsti Weir at Dazed Digital for coming and having a chat with me about  Observations, during which I had the epiphany of what the universe actually sounded like how bad might diet was especially when I read it all back, to find out what check out the full interview here.

You can also check null+void music blog here for other amazing music and reporting.

You can find out more about Observations here. Observations takes place on March 12th & 13th, 2010 at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University at 7:30pm and it’s free!!! It’s getting very exciting now.

Really enjoyed doing this interview, they were a great team and I love the way they introduced the pieces with loads of historical research and references to other music.

The interview explains how and why I made the leap from Obsolete? to Observations. You can listen and download through iTunes here or direct from their web-page here.

You can find out more about Observations here. Observations takes place on March 12th & 13th, 2010 at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University at 7:30pm and it’s free!!!

A lot of public talking today about four hours actually! Two events. First up was a visit to ATM Norwich which I am a patron of to talk about chip tune music, circuit bending with some level three students, who asked some very good questions and showed some good lateral thinking with regards to their own music. Secondly was “Decent Exposure” a Q & A on how to deal with the press, I was on a panel with Wendy Roby of Drowned in Sound, Bob Patterson of BPA Live Agency, Bobbi Coppen of All About Promotions and Alex Mann of the Musicians Union. It was very nice to do something for the Musicians Union, who have been very supportive of me in the past. Again good questions were asked and the crowd enjoyed the evening.

Childrens’ toys are often seen as transitional objects that let the child gain mastery of the world around them. Paradoxically “Childhood Remixed” seeks to re-purpose the toys of my childhood with the skills and understanding of the world I have as an adult.

By rewiring, re-purposing and re-using them I will essentially be remixing my childhood to form an orchestra of automated toys, a learning curve that that folds back on itself.

The interactive pieces will be on display in the Town Hall Galleries, Ipswich between May 29th- July 11th, 2010.  Alongside the main pieces I will also be running workshops and giving talks about my work.

The pieces were commissoned by Ipswich Borough Council & Turnstone Arts Grants sponsor Ip-art Award 2007- 2010 and I am very grateful to be exhibiting this project in my home town. Join the Facebook event page here.

Very pleased I got to finally written this up “A Choice to Compute: Rant in C++” it is part of a talk I give on the decline of programmers and some of the possible causes behind it. You can read the full article on Game People and all of the quotes can be referenced.

Although things are getting better there is still alot of work to be done to turn things around, and on the back of this rant instead of just complaining about the problems I have set up “Computer Club” with several schools to get people programming at an early age. You can see some of the example lessons and projects that I have undertaken with Holywells High School on this Blog here.

Enjoy.

I was asked to describe the last decade in 10 words, I think I did rather well you can check out my “10″ in the new issue of Dazed & Confused Magazine January 2010 issue now. Very pleased to be in such good company as Bjork, Michael Stipe and my favourite redhead La Roux.

Contrasting this “Obsolete?” and I were also named as the Number Nerdiest thing in 2009! awesome thanks to the nerdyshow.com, Hex Warrior and Cap Blackard.

2009 was both a tricky and wonderful year, and for me it was the first of a new kind of year, 2010 already is set to be amazing with five large musical works, two pieces of software and one new album, so yeah I am gonna be very busy.

Image repoduced with permission.

“Our Lady Of Perpetual Succour Catholic Primary School in Widnes collaborated with artist and FACT education freelancer Ross Dalziel on a piece of music using acclaimed artist and musician Pixelh8’s Tech Master Stroke ‘chiptune’ software for Nintendo DS…

FACT’s engagement and education team invited the DS Orchestra to play at the opening of the exhibition “Space Invaders – Art and the Computer game Envirionment” at FACT in Liverpool which continues to run from 18 December 2009 to 21 February 2010.” FACT.

Many thanks to Ross Dalziel of Sound Network and all the staff at FACT, and of course the fantastic DS Orchestra, look out for “Super Chip Tune Samba Band” software, workshops and videos coming soon.

Very pleased this article got out there, which talks about Mobile App development in Suffolk, the work I am doing with UCS students to prepare them for the workplace with the most current technology we can offer them. Not only are they developing for the iPhone, but the Nintendo DS and Java based phones.

It also talks about fellow local developper Paul Hutson and the success of his Kingdom Game and Outer Empires projects, all good news for Suffolk and University Campus Suffolk and I am sure I will update you on my students progress.

Yes it’s bit of an old clip but you can watch it most places in the world now that it is part of the BBC Learning Zone archive here. The clip is about the making of “Obsolete?” the large scale computer music work that was commissioned by the National Museum of Computing and funded by the PRS Foundation.

The second installment on this video can be seen here but sadly only in the UK.

It is also nice that teachers (like the one who told me about the clip) are using it as a resource to show contemporary electronic music in schools.

Another article which I feel will form a part of a much larger story about surviving through the 1980’s “Why I’m disappointed with the future” maybe a little bleak but it hasn’t given up all hope.

I think in the future I will be writing more about my journey through life, they why and how I look at technology in the way I do and not just about the technology itself.

I have several more articles in the works so stay tuned.