Request for Bent Circuit samples

pearsonart.com · Post by **pearsonart.com** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 5:32 pm

I've played a little with this idea.

Does anyone have access to some bent circuit devices?

If so, would you consider recording some and posting samples for download?

Raw audio would be even better but I know that eats up bandwidth.

FTP might be the best bet.

suburbanbather · Post by **suburbanbather** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:47 pm

http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/shop.html

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:11 pm

the term is 'circuit bending'... might help with your search.

Just pop open a device and use a 1k resistor to start shorting stuff together, use those in conjunction with diodes, potentiometers and capacitors for more happy accidents.

try typing in the lettering on the top of a chip and checking out the spec sheet to find the interesting pins (and avoid the power pins.)

dbolt · Post by **dbolt** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:31 am

Go to ROBOTSPEAK.com Great site! San FRan home based company they do ship worldwide.

Later
Dustin

leonard · Post by **leonard** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:41 am

http://www.anti-theory.com/bentsound/

pearsonart.com · Post by **pearsonart.com** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 2:06 am

A couple of months ago, one of my students brought in a battery powered toy to use as a circuit bending project. We recorded about 20 minutes of stuff that I edited together with some other guitar manipulations to make the basis of a song. Very addictive!

I specifically hoped that others might be willing to post their experiences since so much of this seems to be random and performance based.

continuous · Post by **continuous** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 3:41 am

Hello...

This forum http://www.em411.com/ could be worth checking out and asking about.

cheers

friendofphi · Post by **friendofphi** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 4:17 am

I have a few circuit bent toys I've sampled.
www.brokenbeat.ca/robb/music/letsplay.ogg
This is a talking guitar, unfortunetly it's too bent to make into a performance like instrument. It can however (unintentially) make some crazy dog vs cat loops. But it's broken most of those sounds are just how it sounds when you turn it on. I've tried my hand at arranging full songs with just samples gathered from a single toy, only one of them made it to the website
http://www.brokenbeat.ca/robb/music/fri ... itsOne.ogg
It's a speak and read, which was found at goodwill, and we paid 1 dollar for it. I don't intentionally try to make a snare drum sound or anything it just eventually burps one out and I put into an impulse.

I intend to put more up. It's not easy working on a circuit bent song, it makes you crazy and question the meaning of life, both of which are fun things.