-Aphex Twin (born Richard David James on August 18, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland) is a Cornish electronic music artist. He has been described as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music." Rephlex Records was co-founded by Aphex Twin with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge in 1991.
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ZX Spectrum Competition
Richard claims to have produced sound on a Sinclair ZX81 (a machine with no sound hardware) at the age of 11:
"When I was 11, I won 50 pounds in a competition for writing this program that made sound on a ZX81. You couldn't make sound on a ZX81, but I played around with machine code and found some codes that retuned the TV signal so that it made this really weird noise when you turned the volume up."
By displaying changing patterns of color on the monitor (in the case of the Spectrum, as with many early personal computers, the display monitor was a television), the natural hum from the cathode ray tube was modulated, producing a semblance of melody.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphex_Twin
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http://www.aphextwin.nu/
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