circuit bending

The Bent Festival is looking for performers for Bent 2010 : The 7th Annual Circuit Bending Festival:

• PERFORMERS – Bent Festival seeks bands and/or solo artists who incorporate home built or circuit bent instruments or ideas in their performance. Please email a short description of your act, along with a link to mp3s and photos if you have them. Please do not send attachments larger than 1MB.
• INSTALLATION ARTISTS – Bent Festival is looking for installation artists who can commit at least 15 hours to creating site-specific pieces of art at each of the venues during the duration of the festival. Installation artists will be provided with space, materials, electronic equipment and tools. Please submit via email a brief description of your installation idea along with examples of your past work. Please be prepared to commit to spending time in the installation space during the festival and be prepared for a shared and at times hectic work environment. No white walls here!
• ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS – In addition to installation artists, we would like to have featured art work that fits with the spirit of the festival from people who might not be able to join us in person or who cannot commit to working in the space during the duration of the festival. Please submit via email digital images or links of your work and a brief description.
• WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS – Bent Festival is seeking workshop instructors to present on various topics. Topics in previous years have included: General circuit bending workshops for beginners and extremely technical, hands on workshops on a particular aspect or niche of the genre. Please describe the subject you would like to lead a workshop on and provide a one-page description of that workshop, in addition include links or examples of your current and past work in the field.

Details below: Read more…

Circuit Bending For Beginners is a free 30-minute tutorial that shows you how to get started with bending.

The video was put together by Bent-Tronics.com, a site that specializes in circuit bending supplies.

Loopmasters has introduced Circuit Bent Sounds 2, a collection of bastardized electronics, twisted circuits, rewired technology and warped audio.

Description:

Circuit Bent Sounds volume 2 includes a huge range of circuit bent samples suitable for Minimal, Tech, Electro, Techno, Industrial and Drum and Bass music producers worldwide.

Drum machines, synths and childrens toys have been assaulted, violated and pushed to the absolute limit, to create a collection of sounds completely unobtainable in any other way.

Circuit Bent Sounds volume 2 was created in conjunction with Paul Norris of Circuitbenders.co.uk – a devoted expert at the art of circuit bending, and a signed recording artist in his own right. Recycling noise since 2001.

Circuit Bent Sounds 2 retails £19.95 GBP. Read more…

Electro-Music 2009 – a three day electronic music conference & music festival – will be held at the Star Lake Camp in Bloomingdale, New Jersey, October 29 – 31, 2009.

The scope of this festival is very broad, covering all aspects of electro-music: experimental electronic music, circuit bending, computer music, electro-jazz, modular synthesis, musique concrete, improvisation, algorithmic composition, multi-media, visual art and much more. The focus will be on participant involvement, sharing, community development, audience education, and great music.

Seminars will include:

See the event site for additional details.

Casper Electronic has published a hack that lets you turn a craptacular $2 Saw toy into a cheaptacular digital sampler:

This awful figurine from the SAW movies is actually a pretty cool 30 second sample/playback module that’s easy to hack.

You can buy them here for $2 a pop from allelectronics.com. It’s almost worth the $2 just for the AAA batteries that come with it.

Horrible movie tie-in toys = bad.

Cheap electronics for hacking = good.