Dancer and choreographer Erna Omarsdottir performs during IBM 1401: A User's Manual. Photo: Laurent Ziegler When IBM chief maintenance engineer Jóhann Gunnarsson started tinkering with the IBM 1401 ...

Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson makes propulsive and powerful music using unlikely sources and unlikely means: Before releasing last fall's lovely Fordlandia, he'd achieved notoriety for IBM 1401 ...

Somewhere along the way in his upgrade from the venerable Touch label to the much larger 4AD, the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson must have decided that his compositions didn t reveal enough ...

Icelandic composer Johann Johannsson pits the string orchestra against the computer, a struggle also known as "man vs. machine." In 1971, Johannsson's father recorded the sound of the IBM 1401 ...

An album by Jóhann Jóhannsson celebrates the legacy of the IBM 1401, writes KARLIN LILLINGTON ALBUMS OFTEN end up with odd titles, but calling your work IBM 1401: A User's Manualis, by any measure, ...

Lauded Icelandic experimental composer Jóhann Jóhannsson, creator of some of my favorite music to blog to, has released a new album that is a tribute to the IBM 1401 Data Processing System, a gigantic ...

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