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<p class=MsoNormal>This odd discovery brought a smile to me on a frustrating day:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/IBM-1401-A-Users-Manual/dp/B000S5AMS2">http://www.amazon.com/IBM-1401-A-Users-Manual/dp/B000S5AMS2</a>
($4.95 download)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Ibm1401-Users-Manual-Johann-Johannsson/dp/B000I0SGSA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1282877401&sr=1-1">http://www.amazon.com/Ibm1401-Users-Manual-Johann-Johannsson/dp/B000I0SGSA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1282877401&sr=1-1</a>
(regular CD)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>If only more Icelanders back in 2006 had put their quirky
ingenuity into celebrating old technology rather than structuring financial
deals….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
color:black'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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