As a semi-professional musician who takes great pride in developing tightly syncopated rhythms, detailed melodies and clean production, I can say that there is great merit to circuit bent sounds. I too do not have much use for noise and frankly my old moogs and Korgs can make noise just fine without being bent but I absolutely LOVE ripping apart an old toy or keyboard and making it squawk. If I find good sound, I sample it, but some if it will probably never go into one of my songs.
@satinhooks I agree it hasn't found it's musical role... I don't know if it will in it's current form. I think what's most powerful about the medium is the spirit of exploration that it represents.
I love circuit bending. I really think it has the most potential if people are sampling these altered beasts and going from there. The random/ semi-uncontrollable/ non-reproducable sound events bugs me and feels analogous to throwing a fistful of pennies & a few hi-bounce jack balls into a stairwell of an abandoned building & calling it music.
I'm not sure circuit bending has found it's musical role yet. That's probably a good thing. Everything will develop & evolve.
@satinhooks Luckily there are millions of instruments out there that produce controllable, reproducible sounds. ;-) this gear is another option. I would never say it's a BETTER option... just another one.
balanced aesthetics? how about controllable, sounds that can be reproduced for the future. it's still noise. it's fun, but it's hard to find circuit benders that actually produce something musically interesting.
as opposed to producing a random pattern or 'interesting' sounds.
As a semi-professional musician who takes great pride in developing tightly syncopated rhythms, detailed melodies and clean production, I can say that there is great merit to circuit bent sounds. I too do not have much use for noise and frankly my old moogs and Korgs can make noise just fine without being bent but I absolutely LOVE ripping apart an old toy or keyboard and making it squawk. If I find good sound, I sample it, but some if it will probably never go into one of my songs.
stusvend 1 year ago
@satinhooks I agree it hasn't found it's musical role... I don't know if it will in it's current form. I think what's most powerful about the medium is the spirit of exploration that it represents.
casperelectronics 1 year ago
@casperelectronics
I love circuit bending. I really think it has the most potential if people are sampling these altered beasts and going from there. The random/ semi-uncontrollable/ non-reproducable sound events bugs me and feels analogous to throwing a fistful of pennies & a few hi-bounce jack balls into a stairwell of an abandoned building & calling it music.
I'm not sure circuit bending has found it's musical role yet. That's probably a good thing. Everything will develop & evolve.
satinhooks 1 year ago
@satinhooks Luckily there are millions of instruments out there that produce controllable, reproducible sounds. ;-) this gear is another option. I would never say it's a BETTER option... just another one.
casperelectronics 1 year ago
balanced aesthetics? how about controllable, sounds that can be reproduced for the future. it's still noise. it's fun, but it's hard to find circuit benders that actually produce something musically interesting.
as opposed to producing a random pattern or 'interesting' sounds.
satinhooks 1 year ago
yeah petes great, we have been jaming together for a while now, its always fun!
Faltydl 4 years ago
raddest video ever
baronvonsauna 4 years ago
bend this WEUUAAAAAAAAAASJJJ i love that sound :D
M4sk3dC4sp3r 5 years ago
I'm glad Pete started experimenting with analog synths. I'd like to see some crazy Casper modules.
synthmonger 5 years ago
r.e.s.p.e.c.t.
Ultraform 5 years ago