Look Mum No Computer

Sam Battle (born 1988 or 1989), better known online as Look Mum No Computer (stylised in all caps), is an English musician, YouTuber, electronics enthusiast, and composer who posts videos about making pro audio gear and synthesizers, as well as original music tracks.

He is known for making and playing unusual and eccentric electronic musical devices made from vintage technology; notably such devices as a Furby organ, a synthesizer fused with a classic Raleigh Chopper bicycle, and a Game Boy Triple Oscillator synthesizer. Battle runs This Museum Is Not Obsolete, a museum in Ramsgate, Kent which showcases vintage analogue devices repurposed for humorous uses. He is set to represent the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with the song "Eins, Zwei, Drei".

Battle spent most of his childhood in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, and spent much of it indoors experimenting with building projects, such as rockets and robots inspired by the television show Robot Wars. From an early age, Battle showed a strong curiosity for mechanics, frequently dismantling toys, pedal cars, and household appliances like irons and toasters to explore their inner workings. He has a younger sister, Jodie Bartle, who plays football for Wrexham football club and is also one of the "Kosmo" furry characters that appear in the music video for his Eurovision song Eins, Zwei, Drei.

His grandparents were trustees of a lighthouse museum and when he was younger he "...always went after hours and just enjoyed being in the museum".

When he was 16 he attempted to build an electronic guitar pedal and whilst still in high school he also attempted to make a synthesizer as well as attempting to fuse an acoustic guitar with a piano.

In around 2011 he began creating his own electronic musical instruments again and he has commented that "I went to uni to study chemistry then realized I was really not cut out for that and jumped over to a music tech course at the same uni in the same year and caught up. It was interesting enough, I left halfway through to join a band in London, however. Which was a good three years — we signed a record deal and ended up in a confusing situation where we were sort of stuck with an album that wasn’t being released and no gigs. I used this time to learn electronics." Battle has taught himself how to build the electronic musical instruments he plays and he has commented that "Making things started to become more musical in focus because I played guitar in bands for ten years...I was touring the UK and writing songs on guitars, and the two things slowly moulded together, becoming Look Mum No Computer...".

Prior to beginning the indie-rock band ZIBRA, Battle worked in a numer of jobs including fixing synths, fixing bicycles at Halfords and at one point he was a chef. Battle has further commented that when he first began performing music "I started off playing guitar mainly, and then through doing electronics and stuff I began making money by fixing synthesisers and through that we ended up using the synths, liking it and then eventually recording it. Also because my computer wasn’t very good I used the synths instead of using plug-ins, which is not what a lot of artists do. I kind of liked having that different approach of slicing and dicing things up because the computer was too latent to record. When we ended up with the sound we got we were quite happy."

Look Mum No Computer performing with his "Kosmo" modular synthesizer at the Electromagnetic Field festival at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire, UK in 2022.

In 2013 Battle launched his YouTube channel and began posting content for ZIBRA, a band that Battle created with three friends. Battle was the lead vocalist and they performed at the Glastonbury Festival in 2015 as the final act on the BBC Introducing stage, as well as at the Field Day festival in London and they also performed as a support act on tour with Years & Years.

Initially music was the sole focus of his career and then over time it began to change to making videos for YouTube with Battle commenting "So I started by doing a solely music career trying to pursue that, songwriting and stuff and um being in a band and whilst it was working for a bit I felt like it it needed something else. And at that time I had a hobby of making musical instruments and I didn't really at the time think "oh this is going to be useful to be able to make a career from this", I thought it was just going to be a hobby... But then I started sharing videos about that and... ...Strangely enough it kind of overtook when the music started to feel more like a job to me at that point...".

ZIBRA ended in 2016 and since then the youtube channel has posted content related to Battle's solo music project and Battle's first music gear related video was posted in 2016. Besides ad income from YouTube, Battle has also been funding his electronic inventions (such as on organ made of flame throwers) with fan donations, on the subscription platform Patreon.

In 2011 he first came up with the concept for a Furby synthesizer he calls the "Furby organ" and it was completed in 2018 using 44 Furbies. Battle has commented that to create the Furby organ he "...basically designed a simple voice for each of the Furbies... So basically what it is, is a Furby... ...that is able to gutturally sing as well as make its own circuit bent sounds... ...so this in essence is a truly polyphonic Furby formant synthesizer, it's kind of like a Polymoog but instead of Moog stuff, it's a Furby."

In 2022, Battle began restoring a 1914 church organ, as an exhibit in This Museum is Not Obsolete, the process of which has been documented on his channel. Battle also produces and sells modular synthesizer components, such as the #1222 Performance VCO**.**

He released his first single, called "Groundhog Day", in 2019and later that year, he toured Germany, Switzerland and the UK. In May 2022, he joined with Cuckoo and Hainbach to form a musical supergroup called Uncompressed who performed together for the first time at Barcelona’s Sónar festival in June 2019.

Battle has co-produced several compositions for screening, such as Satellite Moment (with Charlie Fink), for the film adaptation of A Street Cat Named Bob, as well as Glitter and Gold (with Barns Courtney) for Netflix's series Safe.

As well as music he present a travel docu-series series called "Junk Rock TV" where he travelled around Europe making musical instruments and performing alongside Hainbach, Pedro Javier Gonzalez, Lydia Kavina and Fedde ten Berge

In March 2025, he announced a video game called Look Mum No Computer, developed in collaboration with the German indie studio The Bitfather and publisher Headup Games. The game was released on Steam on 24 July 2025, and for consoles on 22 January 2026. In 2025 the game was nominated for the German Developer Award for Best Audio Design.

In February 2026, it was announced that Battle had been selected as the artist to represent the United Kingdom at Eurovision Song Contest 2026. Of being chosen to represent the country, he said he "found it completely bonkers to be jumping on this wonderful and wild journey. [...] adding that he had always been a massive Eurovision fan, and that he [loves] the magical joy it brings to millions of people every year, so getting to join that legacy and fly the flag for the UK is an absolute honour that I am taking very seriously." His song, "Eins, Zwei, Drei", was released on 6 March and solely uses his "Kosmo" modular synthesizer.

As of May 2026, his YouTube channel has garnered over 91 million views.

• "Groundhog Day" – 2019

• "Modern Gas" – 2019

• "Shock Horror" – 2020

• "Desperado Vespa" – 2020

• "Daydreamer" – 2020

• "Stand and Deliver" – 2020

• "Youth8500" – 2021

• "Stupid Me" – 2021

• "Ride" – 2021

• "Mind Over Matter" – 2021

• "We'll Find a Way" – 2022

• "Time Is Not a Healer It's a Fuel for Resentment" – 2022

• "Handbook on How to Stay Alive" – 2023

• "Night or Day" – 2023

• "T.I.M" – 2023

• "Too Many Mistakes" – 2024

• "No Hope Eternal" – 2025

• "Eins, Zwei, Drei" – 2026

• "Bordsteinkante" – 2024

• "Rotopops" – 2024 (EP)

• "Ghosts" – 2024

• "Human Procrastination" – 2019 (EP)

• "These Songs Are Obsolete" – 2020

• "Look Mum No Bootleg PT. I" – 2022

• "Look Mum No Bootleg PT. II" – 2022

• "Kosmo Plays Vivaldi" – 2023 (EP)

• "Kosmo Comes for Christmas" – 2023

• "Pipe Dreams" – 2024 (EP)

• "PortaKosmo Vol 1 at the Length" – 2024 (EP)

• "Double Barelled Decadence" – 2024

• "The VCS4 Collection" – 2025

• "Portakosmo 2.0" – 2025

• "Godwin Band in a Box" – 2025

• "Hungry Vultures" – 2025

Battle runs a permanent exhibition in Ramsgate, Kent, housing a collection of vintage electronics, synthesizers, and experimental musical instruments. Named "This Museum Is (Not) Obsolete", it opened in August 2021 and features items from his personal builds alongside donated historical pieces, emphasizing hands-on interaction with obsolete technology. It attracts visitors interested in tinkering with early electronic devices, such as modified tape delays and modular oscillators.

Battle typically uses modular synthesizers in his compositions.

Kosmo is a format he created for DIY-focused modular synthesisers . They feature large (20cm tall) panels and are an alternative to Eurorack that is designed specifically for DIY construction and live performance.

The format is designed to be cost-effective, allowing the use of stripboard circuits and 3D-printed panels, with many designs open-sourced by the community

• Look Mum No Computer discography at Discogs
• LOOK MUM NO COMPUTER – Youtube Channel
• Look Mum No Computer at Spotify
• Look Mum No Computer at Bandcamp