Ada Lovelace et Conor O'Brien

Sonically and thematically, The Art of Pretending to Swim is arguably O’Brien’s most fully realised album yet. It closes with Ada, a song about a 19th-century mathematician and early computer programmer named Ada Lovelace, who also happened to be Lord Byron’s daughter.

“I only heard about her through a comic book about her life,” O’Brien says. “She worked on the famous ‘Analytical Machine’ with Charles Babbage, which was the prototype computer that initially just did simple maths. Her concepts and contributions are the origin and basis of all these algorithms that we use every single day. Their omnipresence is both a wonderful and terrifying prospect all at the same time.” 

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