Circuit Bent Casio SA-5-Mutation Redux Alpha

[funmike1987]

That sounds like the music found on a wario game for game boy advanced.

[schwixol]

totally ghazala paint job. qubais would be proud....

[Thegibbo123]

i hav the same keyboard.. but how do you bend it lol?

[DarkKokoro84]

dude i want one !!

[enemaire]

i love it

[cashc0w]

BADASS i cant even find one of these keyboards to bend

[illuminastymusic]

Nice sounds and nice paint job =]

[LordLazyBoot]

this settles it. I've been trying to figure out what kind of keyboard to keep an eye out for bending and after seeing a lot of work on the sk series, it's definitely the sound I'm looking for right now.

[mastertrev]

yes, and the sa-2, sa-8 (secret sound banks and tons of creative glitches). i really do like vtech alpha desk, and whiz kid plus as well. nice drones. can you do the power drain on these as well?

[3rdness]

This is lovely.

[alexdatsko]

sounds just like my concertmate 380 aleatron! but some of the rhythm glitches u made were really interesting and random, i never can get the reverbed epiano sound to go off like that

[aghily]

Hey really nice job. Looks and sounds really bent. I'm currently bending a SA-39 and have found some nice random glitch points but no body contacts.....yet. Only problem I have so far is frequent crashing.

[princessandgoblin]

this is the awesomest thing ever. i have the original keyboard

[estrobosfrobous]

wonderful case, btw!

[zcallins]

Lovely aggressive ambient sounds.

[paulorcbarros]

Very, very cool. Congratulations.

Greetings from Brazil.

[imo2007]

You have very high technique.

[tropicalian]

Stumbled onto this clip by accident...I remember doing that to old radios when I was a little kid, over twenty years ago. Didn't know anything about electronics, but I loved to pull them apart and tape bits of tinfoil onto the PCBs and check out the weird and cool noises. Now I know that there is a name for it, cool.

[swarm69]

omg beautifull loved it

[b41984]

thus looks fab wats the name of that booku got this out off??

[Squelchbox]

Circuit-Bending : Build Your Own Alien Instruments

Reed Ghazala

ISBN: 0-7645-8887-7

Super cool book!

[suzylux]

how did you do the paintjob? looks good and sounds cool :))

[Squelchbox]

Thanks, the splatter is a marbling effect spray paint and the keys and controls are testors model paints brushed on. It took a while.

8)

[SomethingUnreal]

That's pretty cool. I had something similar to this a few years ago (it was an earlier model though, maybe SA-1? but I recognize 1:51).

If you just took the battery cover off and wiggled the batteries about while pressing POWER a lot then you got into some similar-sounding stuff to this. XD

[edoastudillot]

really nice job man, I love those glitches and it is incredible how stable it is.

[mrSteve81]

That is one sexy paint job!

[Squelchbox]

I haven't done an sa-1 yet but a quick google tells me others have so it's possible.

[Raunchola]

That thing sounds pretty interesting. I have a SA-1. Do you think i can bend it like the SA-5? Did you wired the bodycontacts only to the IC inside? Good work!

[1devo6587]

SOUNDS LIKE A 1950S SINCE FICTION

[1devo6587]

MOVIE

[retroferret]

mine broke while i was probing for glitches/bends on the day i got it...

[H4NDCRAFTED]

Interesting, I don't really get circuit bending, most of the noises you could get from other synths so why is it so many people like to do it ?

It must take time, don't get me wrong, I love to see what people have done.

Can you suggest any good web sites or tutorials about it? I'd like to have a go and see why people do this.

[Squelchbox]

Given enough time, synths, and effects you could create most of these sounds but it just somehow feels good to do it yourself from a piece of junk that you got for 1.99 at Value Village. That and the spontaneous loops and phrases can be very inspiring and useable.

There's a huge online circuit bending community but you can't post links in these comments. Google Reed Ghazala to start(or squelchbox). Have fun.

[jamesmorgandavies]

Oh my - very sweet glitchology!

[carpeteria]

nice work! same comment as above - mine crashes quite easily. it's still a lot of fun. i recognize all those sounds...

[cretin4321]

good job, it seems surprisingly stable.  Mine would crash a lot.

[HeinzHinek]

neat!