Following the viral response on the internet to Jack Copeland and Jason Long’s 2016 blog concerning their restoration of the world’s earliest surviving computer music recording, the pair’s follow up is in two parts: (1) they explain how they resurrected the authentic sound of Turing’s long since dismantled Manchester computer,… read more
This week’s selection comes from Andy Linehan, Curator of Popular Music Recordings. Cyril Blake was a Trinidadian jazz trumpeter who moved to Europe and eventually settled in London in the 1930s. After playing with many well-known musicians in various house bands he became a bandleader and appeared regularly at the… read more
This week’s selection comes from Tom Lean, Project Interviewer for An Oral History of British Science. It has been 55 years since the commissioning of Atlas at the University of Manchester in 1962, one of the world’s very first supercomputers. Developed largely by the University of Manchester and Ferranti, the… read more
This week’s selection comes from Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife & Environmental Sounds. Have you ever wondered what a pond sounds like? Most of us will have spent some time dipping for tadpoles, watching insects glide across the surface or looking out for flashes of colour as fish move beneath… read more
This week’s selection comes from Cheryl Tipp, Curator of Wildlife and Environmental Sounds. Right about now, hundreds of thousands of birds will be en route to the UK, returning to wintering grounds that have provided their populations with food and shelter for millennia. The Wigeon is just one of the… read more