Circuit bending is a unique creative practice where ordinary electronic devices are modified to produce unexpected sounds. Musicians and experimenters around the world open up old synthesizers, toys, and effects to turn them into bent instruments — sources of glitch, noise, and avant-garde music that are impossible to achieve through standard use. Interest in this DIY art form continues to grow, and one of the highlights of this community is the annual bent // broken festival.
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Not Breathing
Not Breathing may be the creative vehicle of 1 Dave Wright, maker of experimental electronic music and instruments. Starting in the late 80s with an…
Patient Alpha Circuit Bending Package
Patient Alpha Circuit Bending Package
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Born within the 80s, Patient Alpha came looking for a twenty-first century update. If you are interested in circuit bending, this keychain noise machine is simple to get involved with, and it has some depth to understand more about.
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Harlot: A Revealing Consider the Arts of Persuasion
Harlot is definitely an interactive digital magazine focused on exploring rhetoric in everyday existence. We invite relevant and interesting contributions from diverse perspectives as well as in multiple media.
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Circuit-Bend Your Casio SK Keyboard
Modify a Casio keyboard (or any other electronic audio stuff) and begin playing a few of the strangest sounds you’ve heard.
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Machinology
Machines, noise, and a few media the archaeology of gortyn by Jussi Parikka
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A Lab of Labs
AMT was again area of the Istanbul Design Biennial, this time around along with Bilkent College (Ankara) hosting a workshop along with a panel. We taken care of immediately the primary theme of faculty of colleges with this own emphasis: a lab of labs. Quite simply, dealing with the Bilkent Media The archaeology of gortyn Lab (brought by Andreas Treske) we organised a 2 day event that performed a lab in as a means to investigate it as being a assemblage of the way, techniques, affordances from the lab within an urban atmosphere and poor Istanbul, a town having a lengthy heritage of crafts, workshops, and style irreducible to some sanitized design thinking discourse.
Circuit bending Development
Development of new connections inside seem-generating electronics to supply sounds unintended by their original designers. An array of effects is possible, and additional tactile controls for example potentiometers, switches, photocells, and the body contacts can be included to control the brand new effects, the commonest modification being for pitch control. Frequently various ‘bends’ are located accidentally by arbitrarily connecting two different points around the circuit board. Circuit bending has attracted considerable attention among persons thinking about experimental electronic music and synthesizers, also it can be performed with limited electronics understanding and construction skills. Because circuit bending requires unauthorised, sometimes radical changes towards the circuitry’s original pathways, it risks damaging or destroying the unit being modified. Toys are frequently exploited for circuit bending due to their ubiquity and occasional cost and also the small chance of electrical shock using their low current. Battery-operated toys like the Texas Instruments Speak n’ Spell and also the Casio SK-1 have latent sonic potential and therefore are prime targets for tinkerers seeking such sounds inexpensively or free of charge and since they have a tendency to ‘glitch’ easily, spewing out fragmented items of digital speech and strange sounds. Types of circuit-bent creations include electronic keyboards, seem modules, drum machines, effects pedals, and karaoke machines. Video bending uses the techniques to modify video-video games to create abstract visual patterns additionally to novel sounds.
Circuit Bending Workshop
There are numerous methods to reuse parts from dissected singing and dancing toys. We’ve mounted mechanisms to make use of in electricity explorations or squence of events machines, we’ve stitched the fur and stuffing to produce mash-up toys and lately we’ve been investigating options for "hacking" the circuit boards inside.
Circuit bending
bent.fm is really a full FM type of a circuit-bent synthesizer. bent.fm enables the consumer to tweak classic circuit bending modifications like fine and octave-decimated clock bends, and test out more esoteric bends. Circuit-bent distortions and algorithmic sequences could be produced by (im)proper connections around the bend matrix. Reroute digital serial information with the base nick set (a numerically controlled oscillator) and additional logic gates (NAND and XOR, binary counters), and experience architecture-level bit crushing. For anybody thinking about circuit bending, glitch sounds, industrial music, and publish-procedural art.