The Imitation Archive A Soundscape of Computer History (fwd)

Sunday, 01 February 2015

The Imitation Archive A Soundscape of Computer History
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Written by Sue Gee   

Award-winning sound artist and composer Matt Parker has embarked on a 
project at the UK's National Museum of Computing to capture the sounds of 
70 years of computing and to use it as the basis of new musical 
compositions.

The aim is to produce a permanent sound archive of the restored and 
recreated working machines at TNMOC from the code-breaking Colossus 
computer up to those of the present day. Other machines that are expected 
to be recorded include the wartime Robinson and Tunny code-breaking 
equipment, the world’s oldest original working digital computer the 
Harwell Dekatron / WITCH, the world’s oldest original working digital 
computer the Harwell Dekatron aka WITCH, which you can hear in action in 
this video...../snip/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SYpPPIsxq64&x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428
 

.....The Imitation Archive project is being funded by the Arts Council and 
like TNMOC's major restoration projects, progress towards the Imitation 
Archive will be shared with visitors, both to the museum and online.

Although located in the grounds of Bletchley Park, it occupies Block H the 
wartime huts erected in 1944 to house Collossus, TNMOC hasn't benefited 
from any of the government or lottery funding that has been awarded to 
Bletchley Park and recently an ugly fence has been erected to separate it 
from the main Bletchley Park mansion. TNMOC has to raise funds separately 
through its own efforts. A pledge by an individual benefactor of £1 
million if matched funding is found means that currently every pound or 
dollar donated to the TNMOC will count double.


http://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/8233-the-imitation-archive-a-soundscape-of-computer-history.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SYpPPIsxq64&x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428


http://www.tnmoc.org/news/news-releases/imitation-archive

http://www.tnmoc.org/news/notes-museum/first-recordings-imitation-archive