Circuit bending

bean · Post by **bean** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:08 pm

any body tried this i`m in the middle of murdering my daughters speak and spell at the mo whithout any results
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Pbyg_kcEk

daft cunt · Post by **daft cunt** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:25 pm

Circuit bending is fun but doing it for the sake of doing it, as in the vid, is a bit boring imo. It can be used to great effect for fucked up music.
Speak n spells are known to work well. Keep trying.
Anyway, there're very few interesting combinations possible on little systems like that. You have to get plenty of them. Flea markets are the places to get lot for cheap.

bean · Post by **bean** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:55 pm

cheers mate carboot for me on sunday!!
yes i get bored!!

djake · Post by **djake** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 6:17 pm

i keep meanin to go dwn the carboot sale to get something to bend

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:30 pm

Two really interesting things in that video

1. The word 'speelunking'.

2. The million dollar question- The person at 1.05: Male or Female?

Jubz · Post by **Jubz** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:32 pm

The people in this video make want to never, EVER try circuit bending in the worry that there might be the tiniest chance I would be associated with them in some way.

bean · Post by **bean** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 8:53 pm

think i may of already crossed over

shit!!!!

nospin · Post by **nospin** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:54 pm

yeah i've broken a lot of unusual toys, that i got pretty inexpensively. with most of the toys i ruined, probably would've been smarter, and more usable to keep them in their functioning states.

the best result i had that still works, was turning this toy megaphone thing that turned your voice into robot and alien sounds, into a guitar pedal.

i remember there being a lot of schematics and tips for common toys like the speak n spell and the casio sk1. try to follow those if you are worried about ruining things.

marsyas · Post by **marsyas** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:56 pm

loser in the movie wrote:its kind of like gabber music with toys

why circuit bend anymore really?
just to make weird sounds?

with the amount of programs these days you can achieve similar if not better results, maybe not as random but who cares.

daedelus being in this movie is kinda lame.

misk · Post by **misk** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:07 am

Marsyas wrote:
loser in the movie wrote:its kind of like gabber music with toys
why circuit bend anymore really?
just to make weird sounds?

with the amount of programs these days you can achieve similar if not better results, maybe not as random but who cares.

daedelus being in this movie is kinda lame.

true, you can do most of this shit in reaktor pretty easily.

thesynthesist · Post by **thesynthesist** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 7:58 am

what a bunch of panty wastes...

No, not in the video, I mean the commentors in this thread...

Bunch of negative nancies, tha lot of you.

esoundc · Post by **esoundc** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:25 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTX-BB4F2Vg

12 circuit bent pikachu orchestra

bean · Post by **bean** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 11:11 am

"why circuit bend anymore really?
just to make weird sounds?

with the amount of programs these days you can achieve similar if not better results, maybe not as random but who cares.

daedelus being in this movie is kinda lame."

true but and you dont get shocked all the time with a softsynth
but hardware is always more enjoyable than software imho

just a bit of fun

i am planning on get my whole kitchen midi synced so when i turn the cooker on my waching machine will do my undies and in turn that should start the dish washer of while my microwave will be defrosting my steak all by one push of a button beautiful.

djake · Post by **djake** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 4:03 pm

bean wrote:
just a bit of fun

i agree,

its alot more fun than clickin a mouse!

slothrop · Post by **slothrop** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:03 pm

Marsyas wrote:
loser in the movie wrote:its kind of like gabber music with toys
why circuit bend anymore really?
just to make weird sounds?

with the amount of programs these days you can achieve similar if not better results, maybe not as random but who cares.

Why have a midi controller when you can enter all the notes you want on a piano roll with your mouse?

It's a different approach and a different experience, innit.

bean · Post by **bean** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:41 pm

alphacat · Post by **alphacat** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 6:38 pm

Bending is a good way to learn how electronics - and especially SYNTHESIS - works in a hands-on way. It can be tedious sometimes:

"[tweak] anything? No.
[tweak] anything? No.
[tweak] anything? No.
[tweak] anything? SHIT! It's on fire... "

Every once in a blue moon though you come across that sound - that perfectly indescribable "WTF was that?!" sound. That's what makes it all worthwhile. For the most part, a lot of circuit bent toys sound like Daleks with constipation & epilepsy at the same time though. It's just one more way to make noise, no better or worse than any other method necessarily, and it gives you a better idea of how to make fcked up sounds in software as well.

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