Historians have found the earliest digital computer music recording, which was made in 1951 by the BBC for a musical performance in a children's radio show.
The recording captures one of the earliest computers to use short term random access memory playing God Save the King, Baa Baa Black Sheep and a short piece of Glenn Miller's In The Mood.
The Ferranti Mark 1 computer was built by UK electrical engineering firm Ferranti in collaboration with Manchester University, UK. It was the world's first commercial computer, and nine were sold between 1951 and 1957.
Link to article. Link to mp3 file of recording [via MeFi]
If you are old enough to remember the days before CDs then you probably have a few mixed tapes tucked away in a box some where. Cassette From My Ex is a site where you can share your stories behind those mixed tapes and even share the soundtracks. Link [via]
I was so psyched to see The Elephant Song posted on Neatorama today. Zach and I found that video over a year ago and it's one of his favorites to watch. It never dawned on me to post it on BlogCadre -- It's a really cute song that should be shared.
After the release of Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D, a.k.a. Halo 25, the remixed version of Year Zero, Trent Reznor of NIN is officially free of the Interscope label. His next album, Ghosts I-IV, a.k.a. Halo 26 comes with a variety of free download and purchase options in multiple digital and physical formats, many exclusive to the Nine Inch Nails website:
Sleeveface is "the art of one or more persons obscuring or augmenting any part of the body or bodies with record sleeves causing an illusion." Here is a gallery of a variety of sleevefaces. Have a sleeveface of your own? Share it with BlogCadre! [via MeFi]
Tuning an instrument can sometimes be a pain, but Gibson Guitar has come up with the world's first robot guitar, Les Paul Robot Guitar, that keeps itself in tune.
"It will not make you a better guitar player but it will allow the average player to access some very sophisticated tunings," Gibson Guitar Chief Executive Henry Juszkiewicz told Reuters on Tuesday.
The six nonstandard preset tunings were used on hits ranging from "Honky Tonk Women" by The Rolling Stones and Hendrix's "Voodoo Child" to Led Zeppelin's "Going to California" and Joni Mitchell's "The Circle Game."
Gibson says the robot guitar is aimed at amateurs who have a hard time keeping their guitars in tune, as well as professionals who now use technicians during concerts to keep about 100 guitars tuned to different keys.
Only 4,000 limited edition guitars will be available worldwide on December 7. Price ta? $2,500.
With Gracenote's Music Maps you can find out who is listening to what and where throughout the world.
I zoomed in on Minnesota and "J.K. Rowling" came up in the "Current Top 10 Artists". Unless they are referring to books on tape, since when did she start her own rock band?
A couple guys at work both purchased Radiohead's new album, which was sold on the "honor system" / "pay what you think it's worth" approach. One of them purchased the album for $5 and the other for $6.
The weird thing is, one of the tracks on the $6 download has a brief bit of extra audio on the "15 Step" track. Check out the video. The difference occurs at about the 3:30 mark, and the $6 version clearly has a 10 second snippet from another song at the end.
Is this a glitch, or is Radiohead giving incremental bonus music based on what you payed?
Here is a video of musician Manu Delago playing a solo on the hang drum, which is a steel drum created in Switzerland. 
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