Jóhannssons father worked at IBM as a maintenance engineer for the 1401 Data Processing System, an early and popular business computer that arrived in Iceland in 1964. His father was also a musician, and he figured out a way to program the machines memory so it emitted electromagnetic waves in a pattern that could be picked up by a radio receiver. The IBM 1401 was taken out of service in 1971, and his father gave it a farewell ceremony that included playing some of the short melodies he had composed. These tracks were recorded. [...] Jóhannsson found the tapes and began to write an elegy of sorts for the 1401, using some of his fathers pieces as a starting point.
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:36:53 +0000
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