Circuit Bending

[Chanflakesisepic]

Dad?

[wisteela]

Love it

[okihimus]

This is too random for me! I've never liked circuit bending. If you want to create waveforms in something like a tracker or even something like matlab it makes much more sense. This is the same as hurling paint onto a canvas and calling it art! For me, art is the brilliant person who came up with the original circuitry. Taking our world, with all its constraints and rules, and making something that works. A calculator. An 8086 chip. This randomly redirecting circuits has no soul to it. No mind.

[TheRastamaninBabylon]

@okihimus

thats the problem. why do you want an inanimate object to have a soul, or a mind.

nothing can be created that will out perform us, or nature;

and if there is something like that being built. i fear for humanity.

[maxpullara1]

@okihimus Not entirely true. In order to be creative with sound you need to try weird and wacky things. Look at Moog or any other well respected synth producer and you will see that their creations were born out of trying to fry circuits!!!

Its not like I am suggesting using just a Circuit bent childs toy to do a live set but incorporating a few whack sounds into a recording/set and you have some magic.

i am new to this side of things but can see its merits. Peace

[unknownbaldwin]

Inspiring video :) a camera-stand would have been nice and less zooming in and out maybe.

[Yazoku]

I wish i had teachers like that in the college i go to

[radioahead]

He did well to put the warning in. This looks like a great workshop!

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

The noises are usually very chaotic, but you can sample them, chop them up and use them in tracks. At least, that's what I do.

[mushpercush]

Nice sideboards...

[iceonaboy]

@mushpercush Paedo sideboards!!

[GilbertsonDerick]

The science behind this shit is cool, but still horribly boring nonetheless.

[xxxslayerxxx666]

@GilbertsonDerick there's nothing boring about creating new sound for music, and trust me, plenty of people have utilized this in their music and made it sound very cool, mr. bungle is a perfect example of that(mainly his disco volante album) btw the singer mike patton did the zombie noises in "i am legend"!

[Anothercoilgun]

Any time you touch or add something outside the circuit to a circuit you change capacitance, inductance, resistance, and voltages. The changes the feedback in the circuit and you eventually where the result with your ears. Bending means slightly altering properties.

[ashleynikmusic]

Where else are there workshops like this? I want to go!

[zxain]

i want to learn to circuit bend, if anyone knows a site or a forum, let me know.

[stickkevin]

i dont understand...

[arakno1]

Classroom of chaos

[ESessionsLabel]

@arakno1 hehe =D

[singinginthecorner]

nice bends man :) im about to go look at your other vids if you have any =]

[djcondra]

Good video. Very interesting and entertaining and doesn't try to make out like circuit bending is some sort of huge arty phenomenon. It's just experimentation and fun.

[xxwalkamongusxx]

sick bideo

[Ozy797]

These make some pretty cool noises. As it turns out, my high school art teacher is having us work with circuit bending...should be quite interesting!

[Intosia]

COOL where can i buy that 'electromagnatic field to sound' thingy? :D

[JingleJoe]

google for it there's alot of places on line and on ebay selling them :) it's called a telephone pick up coil!

[Intosia]

Thanks man! :D Found some :)

[acdc126]

what the...? they are student in electronic or something?

[rinpoche1]

Do you ever wire more than one toy together?

[JingleJoe]

rinpoche1, this is possible I think it's called cross bending, it can be very interesting :)

[arakno1]

i'm about to cross-bend a toy synthetiser with a mini tv!

but i really want to use the tv like a sound generator,not only like an osscilloscope,and it's not easy.

I think i'm on it for a while...i may use an alarm or siren....

[m0rbidmetalhead]

wall outlets

[t4kne]

Mains is the AC plug on the wall. There is no magic here. It's all circuit overload (feedback), distortion and induced impeadance that alters the intended function of the original circuit. My guess is it would get old quickly.

[SidewalkFrequencies]

circuit bending is fun and a sign of our modern times. kids and people alike want to know the mechanics of how things work and effect how they can function. I think it's a positive thing. We're the masters over Machines, not the other way around. don't forget it!

[syntheticmusic]

good comment I fully agree. Sorry, I clicked "bad commment" by accident! i'd love to get into this, just need to find some old equipment...

[giganitris]

@SidewalkFrequencies kids arent people? kidding i agree but i cantexperiment with this stuff so i dont nderstand open valves and how we go from hardware, t imbetween (binary), to software so i dont understand how to control the sounds coming out

[ruthshere]

I'd like to know if noise generated by magnetic fields can help paranormal research.

[Boompass]

Paranormal Research is beyond help.

[lucasfilth]

lol

[sploogersmoof]

doing stuff like this is neve fun if you listen to it, but making it is definetly a blast.

[28pies]

hold the fucking camera still shit

[truthhurts4u]

New music.. seems to be moving toward the exploration of new sounds and more efficient translations from mind to sound. The "reactable" (also on youtube) is another example of this. nice vid!

[loradora132]

Ummm, my kid don't have any toys left!

[lazenbleep]

he does look kinda buff tho. i bet there's all kinda goodies under that shirt, and those hands have got to be ELECTRIC!

[PragmaticEncephalon]

Nice vid. Electric music is here to stay. If u like glitch and experimental electronic music and film, check out my vids and tell me what u think, all help is appreciated.

[munkytron]

yeah how the fuck do you actuall do this. a guess there's an amp in there some where.

[munkytron]

no wait. no amp. just a furby

[tomvill]

is this a course? because i want to take it. also can you do a video thats more of a how to circuit bend

thanks

[Spynetwork]

When do we hear the good music? Or, wheres the creativity in using the sounds you make? This is all academic bullshit. I shake my head listening to you try to talk "cool" philosophy. This guy has no idea what real "crazy" is. I hope you get a nice little -Zap+ from the electronics you ruin.

[m0rbidmetalhead]

yeah. good arguement. i agree. you're so right. your comment has made me not like noise and circuit bending anymore. you are so wise. i feel so enlightened.

[m0rbidmetalhead]

i bet you're right about a lot of things and everyone cares about your opinion and your way of thinking is the only correct one. your opionion is so factual and not ignorant, that it makes all other opinions false, making yours fact.

[m0rbidmetalhead]

start an anti-circuit bending church, club, or facebook group, cause i soooo want to join.

die.

[poddle69]

Lmao!

[lazenbleep]

he does look pretty though. all man. big brain. lots of toys.

[archetype303]

Seriously, it's sad when people can't pull their heads out of a specific hole for a moment just to at least attempt to understand and appreciate something that may have worth and meaning, even if not specifically to you. This is an artform, like many other things that occupy the outré of society.

[archetype303]

And you need to understand that art and beauty are subjective and objective at the same time. You can have your own interpretations, but there is a definite threshold where a process or idea crosses from mundane, trite, and copy-catted into a superior sphere.

[archetype303]

My basic point, without stooping to vulgarities, is that common sense and "normality" are generally beneficial and useful to simply getting by in the world, but testing and pushing past stigma and boundaries has always been, and will always be, a misrepresented, misunderstood, and yet grossly superior function of humanity.

[archetype303]

Granted, I choose to use circuit bending and forms of glitch to create music, but that was after a long period of acclimation, after which I could begin to see what the beauty inherent in the malfunction could be. There's a massive world right outside your door, and it doesn't revolve around beer, boobs, and 'ball.

[dutchfarmer1]

do these people veiw this as a spiritul thing?!!! i see this as nosie.

[goofball223]

LOL go find the Fourier Transform of the signal you are detecting. Maybe it will make sense then.

[CTABPOGIN]

i d like to be reborn as a teenager in the usa just to take part of this seminar whatever it is

[insistence]

nice company of idiots.

[cumesoftware]

Cool effects. I tried this at home with an amplifier that I assembled. It is amazing the amound of sounds I can do.

[calebgreogrejyo]

Regarding the prior comment, it sounds beautiful; it's a new form of art, and it's beginning to surface in new music. Yippee!!!!!

[EVPpsycho]

thatrs dreadful and sad to me.... it doesnt sound like you are manipulating the sound.. it sounds like you are hurting it... it sounds like its screaming in pain because you are messing with its normal functions. that makes me sad

[eddie23a]

on the contrary, it's very positive and creative, it's bringing new life to old discarded toys that would normally sit unwanted in the back of a cupboard or just thrown away.

[dapowerpwnerer]

those are quite some sideburns you got there

[tisaacso3625]

Immerse the stash in your dick-ball dot com.

[jasonliberty]

culo dicks dot com

[joshuak47]

so is this the beginning of the "extremely painful noise is cool" revolution?

[sh1tferbra1ns]

It might seem stupid at this stage, but give it a few years...

[TitanCow]

Do you not see the beauty in this? Making machines do stuff they aren't supposed to with your own intelligence gives a great sense of accomplishment. We aren't stupid, we're just obsessed.

[noekiyu]

You guys are stupid.

[Cowan6891]

People pay money to attend workshops on 'Facking About"? Excuse me but I a class to teach.

[sportsplaya794]

sounds like fuckin incubus

[bpkell]

maybe this isn't really circuit bending, but even a dying battery (especially 9 volts) in analog effects pedals and kids drum machines, and especially ebows do great stuff. I save my half dead 9 volts, and each of them has a play time of a few minutes per day

[sournote01]

Excuse me, but what is the purpose behind circuit bending? It looks like some kind of research, but it doesn't seem to have any kind of scientific or technological purpose. All I see is over-grown kids destroying toys. If someone could please explain, I'd appreciate it.

[Twig6]

To make sexy noises!

[sh1tferbra1ns]

Sournote; a fair comment. The whole point of it is fucking with stuff just for the hell of it and seeing if a new sound source can be created. The concept is in its infancy and therefore not too hot right now, but once people get to grips with the idea we'll hear sounds we never heard before.

[sournote01]

sh1tferbra1ns, I understand the ideas and the drive behind circuit bending (CB). Much appreciated. I'm really surprised as to the overwhelming popularity of CB. It definitely looks like CB pioneers are on to something and I'm really excited as to it's potentials and where it will be in a few years.

[sh1tferbra1ns]

I guess it's like many other things, really; just a bit of fun. Hopfully it'll develop. I have viions of peopl stood on stage with washing machines on full spin....

[jasonliberty]

Circuit bend my dick, bitch.

[cumesoftware]

Maybe you can tell that to the father of the syntetizer and see what he thinks. Lots of stuff is discovered that way (by chance), and only then studied.

[aragaz]

i'm preety sure that circuit bending has bad symptomes, playing with electro- magnetic waves can damage something in your organism os brain

[mofmog]

This is oh so wrong. You might as well say that light damages your brain BECAUSE OH HEY LIGHT IS AN ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE! And considering the fact that it has a smaller wavelength than radio waves, you can even say that LIGHT is more dangerous.

[TEZZLE27]

the cameraman is the teachers mate on acid loving all the weird noises

[futureboycolin]

cameraman is havig a seizure!

[jonh2o]

That looks like sooo much funnn!!!!

[andrewdh11]

im game for the electro mirco

[cuntcuntcuntcunt]

the cameraman is shit

[coilgunner2]

seriously....it is really cool! i wish i had one!

[TheSvetty]

Wow, that electromagnetic microphone is really cool!

[chibbiamerican]

i know! when he put it on the ipod, the noise was so powerful and pretty...