Circuit Bent Instruments and Sounds

These Circuit-Bent Instruments and Sounds Are Merely Gorgeous #MusicMonday

Mention “circuit bending” and you’ll consider someone making unlistenable noise on the Speak & Spell they … broke. However in the grand tradition of Reed Ghazala, circuit bending often means instruments which have exquisitely mutated from vintage devices, resplendent in new paint and making bizarre but wonderful new sounds.

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YouTuber Circuit Bends a Question Bible as a result of a Deadmau5 Tweet [Video]

Earlier this year, deadmau5 tweeted concerning the Question Bible, the infamous As seen on television audio bible. Deadmau5 stated he couldn’t hold back until someone circuit bent the audio bible (circuit bending changes a hardware’s circuits to produce new sounds and instruments). Then, fans of YouTuber LOOK Mother NO COMPUTER tagged the circuit bending wizard on deadmau5’s tweet. Ends up LOOK Mother was up for that challenge.

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Circuit Bent, Casio SK-1 sampling

Cirucit bending is really a procedure for modifying electronics to create sounds they weren’t initially meant to make.

Q.Reed Ghazala created the word within the 90’s but discovered the concept within the late 60’s whenever a small transistor radio short circuited in the junk drawer making synthesizer type sounds.

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Circuit Bending Videogame Consoles as a kind of Applied Media Studies by Nina Belojevic

 

Circuit Bending Videogame Consoles as a kind of Applied Media Studies

Last summer time, I circuit bent a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) videogame console as an approach to a brand new applied media study. Instead of analyzing videogames exclusively at the amount of software, graphics, and seem, this method permitted me to know the way the material procedure for electricity flowing through circuits pertains to the audio and video aspects of games and ties these to histories of work. Circuit bending is really a practice that includes exposing a circuit board and taking advantage of wires or any other conductive instruments to the touch different points around the board together to create “glitches” or any other effects that aren’t usually intended behaviours for that device. Both your hands-on prodding from the circuit board results in a much deeper knowledge of the fabric elements that comprise the board. For example, when i labored about this project, the NES’s video ram (VRAM) nick broke. Getting already commenced soldering new connections permanently to the board, I switched to the web to locate a substitute nick. Although I found the chip’s model no . and knowledge sheet, as well as managed to locate a distributor, I had been simply not able to buy a substitute. These parts were only offered to commercial producers, not individual consumers. Rather of replacing the main one damaged element around the circuit board, I needed to switch the entire board. Within the finish, I experienced three circuit boards to be able to produce what, throughout this note, I call a “glitch console,” which exposes and experiments using the materiality and work at the office in videogames and also the videogame industry.

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Circuit bent keyboard. THE CASIO SK-1

THE CASIO SK-1:

Escapist Sample Shuttle

by Q. R. Ghazala

The glass within my workshop window is 70 years of age. Its thickness varies, and also the world outdoors goes by in fluid, undulating waves. Within the cracks of the glass, in which a forgotten autumn’s chore might have left its mark, is visible all of the colors from the rainbow, refracted splendidly for anybody provided to close inspection. Glued to some rippled pane, an excellent rubber skink watches a little cricket ascend the yellowed fringe of a classic skyharp postcard. With the Victorian very teardrops and hanging stained glass spheres, with the pinned-up templates and photos and chipped eco-friendly paint from the window’s dusty sash flows the orange evening sunlight, wavy after passing with the magic window-lens. Very simple comes now and lightly swings the antique glass balls, their forecasted optical flares rocking backwards and forwards upon circuit sketches, colored-light fairies on the rippled orange ocean. Continue reading “Circuit bent keyboard. THE CASIO SK-1”