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Circuitbending, Circuit-bent or Bending, is the act
of Glitching the electronics of a toy, keyboard, or any electronic
device. To get new sounds, passages, or effects of sounds never herd
before. Most of the time the sounds are very harsh, scary, or down
right nasty. At the beginning performances with these items were for
avant-garde art, or noise music in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Now
since the advancement of electronics circuitbent samples have made it into
mainstream music. Lots of of music stiles now benefits from
Circuitbent samples, and you wont even know it may be in songs you listen
to. Artists insert them as a blip, a keyboard part, or even the
guitar effects now have been circuit bent to give different timbers or
feelings to guitars or other instruments.
Fractal's take on Circuitbending:
Circuit bending is "the
art of unleashing the ghost in the machine," R.
Ghazala. Circuit bending is the hacking or short-circuiting of
consumer electronics to create new sounds for music and audio visual
art. Musicians like Richard D. James of Aphex twin, Tom waits,
Masami Akita of Merzbow, and
Mike Patton of Mr. Bungle and tomahawk; use circuit bent items in their
music they make, and in their live performances. Circuit bending is
usually associated with different types of electronic music, but has
recently broken into mainstream music. A man named Reed Ghazala was the
first person to coin the term of circuit bending. When he found
out in 1966 the awesome sound a transistor amplifier made in his desk
drawer when it shorted out against a metal object, in said drawer.
He then went on to write about the discovery of his founding's in EMI
magazine and for Wiley and Sons publishing. Later they would
published his book Circuit Bending, building your own alien
instruments by Ghazala. Circuit bending was also
experimented on by other pioneers of electronic music such as Bob Moog,
and Raymond Scott, (Raymond Scott doesn't receive as much credit
as he should for his work in Electronic Instruments and electronic
music.) A young Bob Moog and his father made Theremins for
Raymond Scott. Raymond Scott would turn Moog's Theremins into one
of the first electronic keyboard instruments called the Clavivox. This
keyboard was patented in 1956. Later Clavivox models used light shining through photographic film onto
photocells as a source of control voltage
to control
pitch and
timbre. (If this isn't circuit bending then I don't know
what is.) The
Moog's (Bob & his DAD) would also make circuits for many of Scotts
Instruments, witch later would evolve into circuits that would later
used in Moog's instruments. Raymond Scott was also the inventor of
the first Electro- mechanical sequencer.(1)
Raymond Scott also wrote music for Tom & Jerry and bugs bunny
cartoons, as well as; for his jazz quintet, TV commercials, and projects
done for Jim Henson. For more on circuit bending go to Wikipedia's
page on circuit bending, and for more on one of the GREATEST pioneers on
electronic music Raymond Scott go to the Raymond
Scott site. For other links and sites as well go to my Links
Page!
Raymond Scott may have been the inventor of
the first Electro- mechanical sequencer.(1)
According to Robert Moog; Raymond Scott also wrote music for Tom &
Jerry, and bugs bunny cartoons, as well as; for his jazz quintet, TV
commercials, and projects done for Jim Henson. (The Organized
Mind Here) For more on circuit bending go to Wikipedia's page on circuit bending, and for more on one of
the GREATEST pioneers on electronic music Raymond Scott go to
the Raymond Scott site. For other links and sites as well go to my
Links Page!
FractalStudios.net
bends & sounds
I make Circuitbent instruments, and call them FratalStudios
Bends. I make them out of toys, keyboards, drum modules, or just
about any electronic device that makes noise. I take the item and
glitch the electronics, inventing new sounds, and samples, for music and
media. I have been doing this for several years now. I take
those instruments and record samples of there sounds and use them in
the sample CD's & DVD's we make, at FractalStudios.net I also
use the sounds in the music we make at FractalStudios. The sounds
and samples are Wave, or REX (and more) samples. These sounds can be
loaded into Reason, Fruity Loops, Acid, Logic or any other DAW or
Sampler. I will be putting up Videos and sounds of more bends I make
HERE . For more info check out our about us page.
FractalStudios
bends, as well as links to their purchase, on our eBay page. Links to bent sounds, and Bent
Refils Go Here. Check
back for More on Fractals take on circuit bending as well as links to
bends.