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Ada Lovelace's Sketches
I've been really interested in her life and her work for over a decade now. She wasn't allowed to write her own papers, but she worked very closely on the analytical engine. If they'd actually realized it, this would have become the world's first computer. I'm trying to create this aha moment within that text. And then later on in the piece, the machine, if you like, the musical machine comes to life.
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