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.

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“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.

Yup, you can read the article here or here, but in addition to this I’d like to say that I will be making a new version of Music Tech Master Stroke for the event featuring several percussion pages to allow for groups of people to perform together.

The workshop will be based on Samba style music it will just be using a very very modern device to create the sound.  The software again will be made available for free to the general public after the workshop has taken place.

Many thanks to Ross Dalziel at SoundNetwork and those wonderful people at FACT for helping me get this project off the ground. Many thanks to the Chip Tune Marching Band for letting me talking part in their workshop, which helped convince me to take chip tune music to the streets.  Now I need to get back to writing the new version of the software. Cya.

Special thanks to Geek Dad Paul Govan and fellow game critic at Game People for bringing this to the attention of Wired. I was very pleased to see it pop up on my iPhone during a lesson teaching degree students how to program. You can read the full article in the USA here and the UK here. You can find out more about Processing here.

Last week I asked via Twitter and Facebook what format would you prefer the album to appear on. I recently have become more aware of the environmental impact that the production of physical CD’s make , instead of go on and on about it, I would just do it.  “And The Revolution” will only be released digitally, either MP3 192Kbps or FLAC Lossless, as per request from most of my fans that responded.  It will also be available direct from me at my online shop here, you’ll still be able to get it from places like iTunes and Napster as well, but some of you asked for a format which didn’t require specific devices or use DRM. I listened.  So here it is “And The Revolution” I sincerely hope you like it as much as I do. It has been a long time coming and an immense amount of work for me.

Pixelh8 “And The Revolution” available here, on MP3 192Kbps or FLAC Lossless, included in the download are the graphics for printing your own CD too.

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Pixelh8 “And The Revolution” Medley ©2008-2009 Hidden Youth Records UK

Well impressed by the in depth and comprehensive reporting on the article about chip tune music, 8bit Heroes. It was also good to see some of my favourite UK based chip tune bands like Casio Kid, Henry Homesweet, Syphus, DJ Scoth Egg & Sabrepulse getting some well deserved coverage too.

So check it out it’s a three page article and a guide to getting into chip tune music by yours truly. Many thanks to all the FRONT team, it was a pleasure, and well done on the excellent article. Enjoy. FRONT Magazine is available from all good news agents.

You can find out more about the magazine here.

Tune in to hear me interviewed by Digital Planet in a special looking at Obsolete?, The National Museum of Computing and the rise of the personal computer. You can download the new version of the theme tune for free here and you can  listen again here. There is also a downloadable podcast here.

The Open University and Digital Planet, BBC World Service’s Weekly Technology programme, have joined forces to produce six special co-produced editions of the programme. Hosted by Gareth Mitchell, Digital Planet brings the clearest, sharpest guide to developments in our connected world to a worldwide audience via radio, digital and online.

For more information, listen online and listen again visit the Digital Planet BBC site here. Image reproduced with permission see footer.