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  Pixelh8 uses codebreaking machines to make musicPixelh8 makes electronic music pieces from sounds produced by consoles, machines, computers and even typewriters.
This project was comissioned by the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park. During World War II codebreakers at Bletchley Park decrypted and interpreted messages from a large number of Axis code and cipher systems, including the German Enigma machine. Pixelh8s most recent work Obsolete? is a audio and visual study of the people, machines, history of The National Museum of Computing, Bletchley Park and looks closely at the themes of mathematics, logic, code-breaking and enciphering. The music itself is composed using some of the oldest and rarest computers in the world such as the WWII code-breaking machine Colossus Mark 2 Rebuild, and the 1960s Elliott 803 largely used for mathematics and some of the more commonplace machines such as the BBC Micro. With over thirty machines studied and utilised within the music, it is a combination of both sounds from the internal sound chips and the external electro-mechanical sounds. In addition to this, the piece also utilises such items as the early non-electrical mechanical adding machines. The project was comprised of twelves pieces of music and accompanying visuals and culminated in two performances at the prestigious Bletchley Park Mansion on March 20th and 21st, 2009. Pixelh8 combines the sounds of video games and toys, that have been reverse engineered and reprogrammed to form original compositions. In other words, he also uses Gameboys, Atari's, Spectrums and old video games to make new music. For more on him, follow the link below. All imagery and music © & (P) Hidden Youth Records UK 2009
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