Circuit bending is the creative customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new...

instruments. Circuit bending usually involves dismantling the machine and adding components such as switches and potentiometers that alter the circuit. Another...

Ghazala in the 1960s and Reed coined the name "circuit bending" in 1992. Following the circuit bending culture, musicians also began to build their own...

instrument builder, was described by Motherboard as the "father of circuit bending", having discovered the technique in 1966, pioneered it, named it,...

and began to teach math "circuit bending"—the application of the creative short circuit, a process of chance short-circuiting, creating experimental electronic...

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Gesang der Jünglinge of 1955–56. Circuit bending is the creative short-circuiting of low voltage, battery-powered electronic audio devices...

in the same row are depressed simultaneously; however, within the circuit bending culture, emphasis is given to the fact that these units are being used...

such as CD skipping, electric hum, digital or analog distortion, circuit bending, bit-rate reduction, hardware noise, software bugs, computer crashes...

from circuit bending, in which objects such as children's toys, effects pedals and electronic keyboards are deliberately short circuited by bending the...

particularly common in the computing and electronics industries, in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games. More generally, all types...

professional assistance Building musical electronic circuits such as the Atari Punk Console and create circuit bending noise machines from vintage children toys...

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samples, voice circuit bending, adding individual audio outputs, adding CV outputs, adding pitch change to each voice, and adding circuits to randomize...

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such as experimental music, electronic music, sound installation, circuit bending, sound sculpture, builder of experimental musical instruments, noise...

satellite receiver dish A circuit inside of a hard disk drive or tape player connected to the magnetic heads, or the circuit inside of an optical disc...

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other types of music, even abandoning guitar, and started working on circuit bending. He uses a mixing console as a live, interactive musical instrument:...

of all stripes. They are also the primary focus of the practice of circuit bending: making sounds from products that were unintended by the makers of...

and introduced in 1976. The EBow uses a pickup and a magnetic feedback circuit to vibrate strings without touching them, allowing players to sustain notes...

from Sound on Sound magazine at archive.org Burnkit2600's guide to circuit bending the QY10. How to replace your internal battery. Polynominal QY10 resource:...

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use of bitcrusher, especially on drums. The end of Daft Punk's "Short Circuit" from the album Discovery starting at 2:12. The end of Billie Eilish's...

and 1990s are occasionally used by ambitious sound designers who use circuit bending, a process in which a person rewires the circuitry in innovative ways...

boost (MRB) circuit switch with a transistorized solid state MRB circuit. Plunkett had lifted and bread-boarded a transistorized tone-circuit from the Thomas...

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unlike the larger modular synthesizers before it. In 1978, Sequential Circuits released the Prophet-5, which used microprocessors to allow users to store...

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