Circuit Bent Glitchtronica
An interesting blast of circuit bent glitchtronica from Thickshoe:
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
The Kansas City Star has a surprising bit of mainstream coverage of circuit bending and glitch music. In the corner of Noah Fleischman’s Kansas City basement sits a table with electronic toys, keyboards and guitar pedals, all gutted and rewired, circuitry spilling from the casings. But he’s no gadget repairman. He’s a musician. Fleischman manipulates… Read More Circuit Bending in Kansas City
Here’s one for the benders & DIY’rs: Highly Liquid is offering MIDISpeak Module – Version 2, a talking toy MIDI retrofit for the Speak & Spell, Speak & Read, or Speak & Math. Features: Adds a standard MIDI IN port to your Speak & Spell, Speak & Read, or Speak & Math. Non-English versions also… Read More Add MIDI to a Speak and Spell
Bent-Tronics is a site that carries specialty electronic parts for circuit-bending and other electronic experimentation. Its selection is small, but it carries many items for benders that can be hard to find. Their selection includes body contacts, potentiometers, knobs, LEDs, connectors, switches and tools. Bent-Tronics
Bent-Tronics features components specifically for instrument circuit-bending. The site calls itself the “World’s first circuit bending store,” and carries body contacts, joysticks, knobs, LEDs, connectors, switches and tools. “My goal is to provide one central site that offers essential supplies for fellow circuit benders,” notes the site’s owner. “I’ve spent hundreds of hours on the… Read More Site Features Circuit-Bending Supplies