[SIGCIS-Members] IBM 1401: The Musical! (almost)

[julie hugsted]

Amazing! Crazy! Great! I am also listening to it now - I often get
pleasantly surprised from what comes from our different Nordic
neighbors - especially when it comes to creative work! I think I am
already a fan of the concept and the music is great! - I also work a
bit with the immateriality at the moment, this is definitely opens new
ways to comprehend these matters......

More links to it: IBM 1401, a User's Manual Part I - IBM 1401 Processing Unit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBw_wSoVQrY

Jóhann Jóhannsson on "IBM 1401 A User's Manual" (In partly Swedish and English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whvzDJGt-fk&feature=related

2010/8/27 Thomas Haigh <thaigh at computer.org>:
> This odd discovery brought a smile to me on a frustrating day:
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> http://www.amazon.com/IBM-1401-A-Users-Manual/dp/B000S5AMS2 ($4.95 download)
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> http://www.amazon.com/Ibm1401-Users-Manual-Johann-Johannsson/dp/B000I0SGSA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1282877401&sr=1-1
> (regular CD)
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> Summary: Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has recorded an orchestral work inspired
> by and incorporating the sounds of the first IBM 1401 installed in Iceland.
> (Perhaps the first computer in Iceland – Petri Paju would know this…) The
> title is “IBM 1401 A User’s Manual”. It’s also interesting to see that the
> trick of generating music via radio interference long predated the
> microcomputers of the 1970s, as the sounds are supposed to have come from
> his father’s work in 1971. It’s not actually a musical, but parts were
> apparently used for modern dance and there are some spoken passages.
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> I’m playing the first track (movement?) right now, and it is deeply strange.
> This should put everyone in the right mood for the “Materiality and
> Immateriality” theme of our forthcoming workshop.
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> If only more Icelanders back in 2006 had put their quirky ingenuity into
> celebrating old technology rather than structuring financial deals….
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> Tom
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