Martin Rootes, of MA3 release fame, has got them off the original cassettes and made videos of BBC Micro generated graphics. See this video of Texture and Pattern:
Micro Arts Group Generative Microcomputer Digital Computer Art
Computer art, generative graphics and story text generators
Martin Rootes, of MA3 release fame, has got them off the original cassettes and made videos of BBC Micro generated graphics. See this video of Texture and Pattern:
This is from datacassette MA2: Piano Bar (red) by Geoff Davis 1984.
For more details see the MA2 Various Unusual Events page.
Pete Shelley, the Buzzcocks founder and writer, went solo and produced records such as Homosapien (banned by the BBC). It makes you wonder what the BBC is banning nowadays, for our own good, supposedly.
It seemed a good idea to make a ZX Spectrum lyrics/graphics piece for the LP (coded by friend Joey Headen). The computer program code was recorded on the 1983 Genetic/Island vinyl LP. This created lyrics and visuals. It was coded for an Sinclair ZX Spectrum (48k, issue 3).
This video has the album with the computer graphics and lyrics.
Another video this time of MA1 ‘Abstract Originals’:1
The first generated art on MA1 Geoff Davis ‘Abstract Originals’.
No sound.