ODAKU - Ensoniq Mirage Self-Composition (Circuit Bend)

[TheHevquip]

You know what would be great? If programmers secretly hid things like this back in the day in the software OS and floppy discs and whatnot...

[adderxxx]

my asr10 used to do this every every time i used a really small loop

[brightstarlit]

your mirage makes nice stuff by itself, awesome!

[brightstarlit]

your mirage makes niuce stuff by itself, awesome!

[nikwalnikwal]

It's actually NOT that bad!! I almost like it..

[wudsiba]

Were there samples loaded in this at the time, or are these just ghost in the machine sounds? Badass. I plan on sampling this in my MPC.

[kuronekotabichan]

this is amazing. the mirage puts laptop musicians to shame. what kind of samples are on the inserted disk? parts of the composition remind me of the fennesz album hotel para.lel - recorded entirely with a glitchy asr-10

[squidfanny]

have you had a bash at circuit bending this machine yet?

Looks like it'll 'bend quite nicely...

[Biopharmer]

This is so good, I like it.

[autisticotakugirl]

This is one of the strangest things I've seen as far as electronics malfunctioning on their own. The only other time I can recall something like this happening was in my own home back in the 80s or 90s. Only it wasn't a keyboard. Strange as it sounds, it was actually a wall clock. Not digital but one that has the hands and pendulum. The chimes were what was electronic and one night it started to go crazy. It woke me and my mom up. The chimes just started chiming consistently and sporadically.

[mdentari]

Awesome. Sounds like an Alien Mission control! OR maybe they are trying to communicate to you the only way they can through your keyboard. Mmm. I think I going to write a story about that now!

[autisticotakugirl]

That's pretty weird! I'm curious, how old is this keyboard? It looks like it must be pretty old, like from the 70s. If so, that may be one of the reasons why it glitches up like it did. Do you know what year this model is?

[latasha66]

I don't think they were around in the 70's. I kinda rememeber them popping up mid 80's... maybe 1984 or 85... It was actually a cool keyboard for it's time. I was more of an EPS, which came out two or three years later.

[stumpythumper]

I'd much rather my Asr-10 did this than reboot :)

[diablo22900]

My EPS used to do shit like this. It would pick up radio transmissions, or the sequencer would freak out and play ghost samples. Not cool when you're stoned and have the headphones on...not cool at all..lol

[scott93257]

Ahhh the mind of an old computer

[klotski]

My Mirage had a pretty weird sequencer glitch but when it would crap out and get stuck the sound was alot more raw. Was the audio here going through a pitch shifter or a reverb as well? Could you ever get it to do that again?

[odakueffect]

It was recorded directly to PC without any external FX.

And no, I am not able to get the Mirage to bend when I want to. It does it by it's self but it's quet rare. Usually it just sits turned on for hours and than it starts on it's own, maybe gets bored :-), but as I said it's rare. Only did it few times over the years.

[klotski]

Listening to your video again it kind of sounds like what mine did but with a much more regular and rapid pulse- like it's been overclocked. I never actually physically modified mine- it was more a flaw in it's ability to handle data or not knowing what to do with all of it- sort of a buffer overflow. Btw- thanks for the replies. Cheers!

[odakueffect]

You've also mentioned that your sound is more raw. It could be settings and samples loaded related.

[klotski]

I was able to get it to do it pretty regularly- it didn't really matter what was loaded.

[djnamelessmix]

That's really cool.

[MarsHottentot]

Wow! I've never heard of that before. That is fantastic - you're lucky you caught it on disk!

[roisto723]

sounds happy :)

[AMOKIAN]

Insane!!! It

talking to you.

A random BENT giltch from the vintage MIRAGE!!!! WHOA!!!Send this to the SCIENCE INSTITUTE of random bleEPs, bloops, glitches.

What an awesome recording.

YEAH!!!

[AMOKIAN]

It's Alive!!

They are here....

Have you heard anything like it , since this VIDEO....I think it awesome.

[blu3shock]

Wow so you didnt open it up or anything it just came out like this. =]

[AMOKIAN]

You have to ask ODAKU how it happened?

[molluscicide]

I'm so glad you got a recording of this... That is fantastic. I make a lot of chance music and computer guided music, and this leaves me speechless. I love it...