This video, via BBTV, is really pretty strange. At the 2008 Bent Festival for experimental electronic music, Xeni encountered Krach der Roboter (“Noise Robot”), who offers a message of peace, crackers, and chaotic tonal algorithms for all mankind. “Why do humans love robots so much?” Xeni asks. “Actually, people love animals, babies, and robots,” Krach… Read More Bizarre Circuit Bending Video
To promote the art of circuit bending and the BENT festival, Absurdity.Biz has uploaded the first BENT Festival dvd online in its entirety. Shot at the first international circuit bending festival in 2004 at the TANK in NYC for Absurdity.Biz’s ongoing Circuit Bending documentary, it later became a side-project DVD series sold at the BENT… Read More Free Circuit-Bending Documentary
Jon at Audio Geek Zine has released a new sample library, Toys Breaking, which offers 1,400 samples of circuit bent toys. Contents: Ass Intruder – A toy gun only labeled intruder. Pitch controls were added. Casio SA-10 – a small toy keyboard with a tendency to glitch aggressively. Casio SA-20 – a larger version of… Read More The Sound Of Toys Breaking
Bighead Electronics is selling a limited edition pre-modded C64, the Bent64 (eBay). The system comes completely loaded Paul Slocum’s Cynthcart, a custom program which helps the heavily modded Commodore produce a wild cacophony of retro noise as you press keys on the keyboard. It’s still fully functional as a standard C64, too, with the flip… Read More Bent64 –
An interesting new video looks at circuit bending in Oregon: Some people call it “electronic folk art” or a regular-people’s entree’ into electronic music. Enthusiasts call it circuit-bending: opening up discarded electronic teaching toys, musical keyboards and talking animals to reveal their circuitry, then re-wiring the circuits to make sounds the original designers never imagined.… Read More Circuit Bending In Oregon
Circuit bending is the process of creatively short-circuiting cheap electronic devices such as guitar effects, children’s toys and synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. If you’re not familiar with it, you might want to check out this short preview for the circuit bending documentary by Derek Sajbel. The video features Q.R. Ghazala,… Read More What is Circuit Bending?
An interesting blast of circuit bent glitchtronica from Thickshoe:
Berrtill is a free distortion unit from Shuriken.de that’s modelled from circuit bent hardware. It offers an interesting collection of controls, including Clip, Drive, Bitcrush, MonsterClip and Moonshine. Berrtill is modelled on a pile of old crap gear, as this video demonstrates: It’s a free download for Windows and as a Universal Binary for Macs.… Read More Free Virtual Instrument Short Circuits Your Music; No Worms Harmed
Times and places for the 2007 Bent Festivals have been announced: Los Angeles – April 12-14, 2007 Minneapolis – April 19-21, 2007 New York City – April 26-28, 2007 Each year, The Tank invites benders from across the country and around the globe to perform concerts with their circuit bent instruments, to teach workshops to… Read More The 2007 Bent Festival
NAMM Show update: Sonivox announced the release of its first collection of loop titles, called LoopLine. Sonivox LoopLine titles feature a mix of street-current beats and sound textures with very high-end production techniques. LOOPLINE titles also feature very unique content. Its premier title Bent Circuits packages up a set of beats and sounds from Bent… Read More SONiVOX Intros Bent & Dirty Loop Collections
