Sunday, November 12, 2006
What is Circuit Bending?
"This Short/Preview for the Circuit Bending Documentary by Derek Sajbel (http://absurdity.biz) features Q.R. Ghazala, Nebula Girl, The Shinths, Daedelus, Dave Wright, Cynthia and music by Venetian Snares"
YouTube via DrRek. Sent my way via FreakyFreeFrancis. Cynthia makes an appearance along with some modulars.
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ReplyDeletehehe....really interesting looking film....i'd like to see it!
ReplyDeletei got interested in circuit bending about 3 years ago ..conceptually....
but after hearing some of the "tunes" soon realized doing it for fun is much, much more satisfying then listening to anyone else do it "professionally" as a "musician"......but nonetheless i hope it sticks around as a concept...a rebeillion....
just keep that stuff in the basement with friends and out of my live music scene....
as anonymous said, the msuic made with circuit bent stuff is shit... MOST of the time. some people can pull it off well.
ReplyDeleteits just that msot the peopel who actualy make the stuff were enver musicians in the first place and don't have an ear for it, so they make really shitty noise with the devices; they don't care to eer try and synch the devices to eachother otr anything, just have a big wall of shitty noise.
What Tim said.
ReplyDeletewoah... Cynthia is a man!
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who didn't know??
One problem I find is that people don't think outside of their bent instruments, they want to use them in all their glitchy glory, but to make a song that is appreciated by an audience outside the hardcore bender you need a bit more.
ReplyDeleteI've started sampling all my bent gear to turn it into samples and instruments to use in Ableton so I can make something more appreciable by a wider audience instead of just my synth geek friends.
But experimental sounds need to be there to help music evolve, if people didn't at least try crazy things you wouldn't have as much creativity.
The most widely known album I know of that used Circuit bend instruments is the last NIN album that used a bent SK-1
the only evidence that there is circuit bending on the NIN album is some speculation from the guy who built one for trent. he is claiming it is on the album just because he has a pic of it in his studio. IMHO there is no sonic evidence to back this up. it sounds like another advertising exaggeration at best. anyone know for sure?
ReplyDeletequote->woah... Cynthia is a man!
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who didn't know??
nope. I didn't know either. whatever floats your boat, I guess.