"Can an old electronic toy make melodies? JACOB ADELMAN finds a festival full of rewired gadgets used as instruments.Hans Koch stood on stage with the disemboweled guts of a computer spread out on a table before him. He prodded the motherboard, floppy drive and modem with a pin and doused them with salt water. The components -- attached to a mixer and amplifier -- emitted bursts of noise that layered into a collage of static and feedback."
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Meh, experimental music is rarely good, I think that's what these circuit-benders are forgetting.
ReplyDeleteOr maybe they think the weird bleeps and bloops actually ARE catchy! Who knows...
or who cares, rather.. ¬_¬
In the future, we will create science with music.
ReplyDeleteWild Stallions!
mmm.....art....
ReplyDeleteeven engineers like me can be artists.....
even bums on the street can be artists.....
we are all artists....
i heart art
And this is new? Aren't these sort of similar to the circuitry techniques that Louis Barron used, where he designed circuit systems that more or less blew themselves up while the results got recorded and then tape-manipulated by him and his wife Bebe?
ReplyDeleteThe more things change, the more they stay the same, seems like.
I was at this particular perfomance. It was, umm... interesting, I guess. In a 'performance art' sort of way.
ReplyDeleteDon't get me wrong; I enjoy a little circuit bending from time-to-time, but this wasn't even 'bleeps and bloops'. More like a constant static buzz that didn't seem to really change much.
It was a bit confusing, actually. Seemed like everyone there was pretending to be into it to keep up their circuit bending cred or something.