I had a wonderful time at the Vintage Computer Festival, the National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park, so many computers so many exhibits. I instantly fell in love with the a Vextrec computer once I saw and heard it in action. I got to see some of the collections from other museums like the Centre for Computing History who have some immaculate and rare computers and even Jim Austin’s Altair 8800 from his collection.

I was very fortunate to meet and chat with most of the speakers Chris Serle (The Computer Show) , Sophie Wilson (ARM processor and Acorn Computers) , Dylan Smith (the Tweeting spectrum) I even asked some questions during the Q&A’s for both Sophie Wilson and O.M.D. who gave an amazing Q&A and performance of some new songs and classics. The volunteers at the museum also took to giving presentations at the museum Peter Onion on the Elliott 803, Tony Frazer on the Witch, Delwyn Holyroyd on mainframes of the 1970s, Tony Sale on Colossus and our youngest volunteer Adam Bradley on the Cray series computers which the crowd loved.

I also gave two performances in the mansion which were good fun because of the small audience size, people could ask questions during, for the chip tune performance I even took them through the code for the visuals. The second show on Sunday was was a re-showing of Obsolete? and a Q&A which I am beginning to like doing more and more. For the rest of the time I was directing people round the museum and talking to exhibitors.

All in all it was a great weekend and good fun was had by all, I even picked up a second BBC Micro.

You can hear BBC’s Broadcasting House’s report on it here around 54 minutes in to the programs, also report on the event at the BBC Technology website here.

Very excited about being a part of the Bury St. Edmunds BBC Blast weekend, there are literally loads of activities for the 13-19 who wants to get involved and get creative, the events are free and I will be there with a Super Chip Tune Samba Band and to give a performance and lecture. Electronic dance music, fashion and film making it’s all here thanks to the BBC.

Facebook event page for my workshop here and main BBC Blast Bury St. Edmunds page here.

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As a follow the Outriders radio documentary that went out Jamillah Knowles at BBC Technology put together an article on it, which ended up on the BBC front page next to some guy called Steve Jobs.

Again it features the excellent Simon Cottee director of Pixel – A pixel art documentary and the amazing Tristan Perich creator of the 1 bit symphony and you can find more information on their stuff on there too. You can read the full article here and listen to the podcast here.

Enjoy

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Very pleased to be featured on BBC Radio 5’s Outriders took the time to have a closer look at Pixel Art and Chip Tune Music, I was interviewed alongside the excellent Simon Cottee director of Pixel – A pixel art documentary and the amazing Tristan Perich creator of the 1 bit symphony and I am very pleased with the coverage that this documentary brings to these areas. You can Listen on the radio on BBC Radio 5 it is broadcast on Tuesdays at 0300 in Up All Night or you can listen now online here. You can also have a go on a re-creation of the circuit bent NES at Childhood Remix here. Enjoy!

Things are going well, I have three tracks completed, two of which have already been played on the radio here in the UK and some in Germany and some in the USA, so things are also going well. Both “IED” and “Out On The Floor” are on my myspace page here, and I have had a good response from everyone about them.

“Current Affairs” is also done and music video is in progress, very excited about it. I am thinking I won’t release any singles from this album either especially not physical releases as singles, however I feel after doing a project like “Obsolete?” I will make a music video for each of them or at least most of them.

There are about 15 other tracks though some are 75% done and some are just ideas, but either way I am super excited. The album spans from euphoric and pleasant to dirty and noisy electronica already, and yes I am still gonna have a few guests, it’s just very slow to organise as everyone seems to be doing their albums at the same time.

But yes, things are going well. Rehearsals tomorrow for gigging season and I have some new songs to play so a little nervous about that but will get it all sorted tomorrow.

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.

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Ok lots of stuff to choose from, first up BBC Radio 3 The Late Junction with Verity Sharp from the BBC website here, a very eclectic radio show. BBC Word Service The Strand interview with Dan Damon and article on chiptune music here, and finally last but not least BBC Radio Wales an interview with Adam Walton regarding music and technology here from Sunday 26th for a week. Enjoy!

I am never quite sure whats going to happen next, but this is a nice suprise. Music from the “Obsolete?” concert piece will be performed on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction with Verity Sharp, very excited the program always features an eclectic range of music and I have tuned in for quite some time now.

There is a Facebook event page here and more information as well as online listening and listening again from the BBC website here.

Enjoy!

“IED” Instrumental was debut’d last night on BBC Radio 1 on David Hoopers Disgusting Electronica.

You can listen again here, lots of good music, fun and frolics. “IED” from the forthcoming album “And The Revolution” coming soon. I am working very hard on it and other projects at the moment, more info as soon as I have it myself.

It’s also on my MySpace page so you can add it to your profile.

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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