Dec 02, 2003 04:51 pm what do you mean by circuit bending?
Circuit Bending
Posted on Dec 02, 2003 04:08 pm
Loki
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Member Since: Apr 07, 2002
In my quest to occupy my time, I've decided to start a project that will consist of me circuit bending an old keyboard I have. This will be completley expirimental, and I have no idea how it will turn out. I will keep everyone informed if interested on how this project turns out, and may even write an article on how I did it if anyone is interested.
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Dec 02, 2003 04:51 pm what do you mean by circuit bending?
Dec 02, 2003 08:55 pm Sweet Loki, I cant wait to see what you come up with. If yours turns out, I might just have to go out and pick up an older synth and get out the jackhammer and torches and see what I can come up with. Just outa curriosity, which keyboard ya gonna rip into.
Dec 02, 2003 10:29 pm Kawai WK50 is going to be my expiriment.
As far as what is circuit bending: Circuit-bending is an electronic art which implements creative audio short-circuiting. This renegade path of electrons represents a catalytic force capable of exploding new experimental musical forms forward at a velocity previously unknown. Anyone at all can do it; no prior knowledge of electronics is needed. The technique is, without a doubt, the easiest electronic audio design process in existence.
The circuit-bent instrument, often a re-wired audio toy or game, is an alien instrument: alien in electronic design, alien in voice, alien in musician interface. Through this procedure, all around our planet, a new musical vocabulary is being discovered. A new instrumentarium is being born.
Countless audio gadgets are experimental musical instruments waiting to happen. Circuit-bending's anti-theory approach to electronic design makes accessible to all audio explorers an endless frontier of original sound-forms to discover, and fantastic instruments to create.
Within these adapted devices, along with the unusual voices of circuit-bending, are often found aleatoric music generators; that is, chance-music composers that stream unpredictable audio events: elements shifting and re-combining in fascinating ways.
(taken off of www.anti-theory.com/soundart/circuitbend/)
Dec 02, 2003 11:02 pm i didn't know this was an art form. i've been doing it with old school instruments for a while now. kudos to you!
Dec 03, 2003 12:37 am how about racing pickles on windows? kind of avant-garde, but still...
Dec 03, 2003 02:36 am heres a bent tr626 that jamie sent me a link to ages ago....very cool!
alien-devices.com/tr-626.html
Dec 03, 2003 04:56 am Quote:
how about racing pickles on windows? kind of avant-garde, but still...
not art, I smell a new olympic sport tho!
Dec 03, 2003 07:44 pm Alright so I took the keyboard aprt today and started to mess with it, and in the process I blew it up. It's completley useless now, so that sucks. I'll try it again soon, once I get another cheap keyboard to expiriment on.
Dec 03, 2003 10:13 pm I did read however that Reed does not recomend bending anything with over 6 volts for that same reason. But I think that thing used batteries didnt it. I know my old Casio did. I should have kept that for doing one. Now I wanna go find an old Yamaha DD5 and rip into it, I saw an Alesis HR-16 bent once and it was a little to much but I think you could tone it down some from what this guy had done.
Dec 04, 2003 11:48 am yeah it ran on batteries so I figured it would be fine, it was my mistake because i hit one of the power conductors on accident, not really paying attention
Dec 04, 2003 03:54 pm Well it is possible you might be able to repair the power section that was blown out. dont give up just yet. Go do battle and then come back and look at it with a fresh outlook.
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