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  Later this week at The Lost Voices of Electronic Music History symposium in Huddersfield I am talking about the work of polymath musician, engineer, recreational mathematician, circus historian and musicologist T. H. O'Beirne who's engineering work on SOLIDAC (1963) (an early digital computer designed built in Scotland) eventually lead him to produce a series of musical programmes in the 1960s. I found this pamphlet in a book shop in Cambridge which got me interested.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0lEi8OqtKI&t=2358s Here is a talk I did titled Control Systems in Contemporary Art Work it's an attempt think through how production of automata from antiquity influenced philosophy & economic labour theory as well the development of kinetic & interactive art. I then try & show how the methodologies we use in conservation are drawn from the same philosophical traditions that the art comes from & how they co-constit...

• Post #2518864

  This Saturday in Leeds I am giving a short talk on my research at The Synthesizer Research Network (SyReN) Symposium titled: Someone Else’s Patch, Notes on Xenorganology and Early Video Synthesizers. synthresearch.org/symposium #mediaarchaeology #organology #mediaarthistory #computerarthistory

• Post #2518863

  Got a cheap physical copy of Osiris, Volume 28 – Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750–1980 as it's all bangers and I have wanted one for a while #organology #mediaarchaelogy #sts

• Post #2518862

  This Saturday I will be talking at LCB Depot in Leicester about the history of EMS Synthesizers with researcher and composer and composer and sonic artist Pip Greasley. I am currently restoring an EMS Synthi AKS in my spare time which has involved being in dialogue with Synthi techs all over the world and sourcing obsolete parts as well as analysing the construction and design of the instrument. #synthesizers #Mediaarchaeology #Organology