The Mystery Circuits Mike-o-Wave

YouTube via mysterycircuits
"By Mike Walters, 2008. Modified Yamaha PSS 140, circuit bent and recased. Custom flat panel controls everything. Visit www.mysterycircuits.com for more technical details and photos."

AnalogSuicide.com & Mike Walters' Breadbox Synth

YouTube via tarabusch.
"Filmed in spring, 2006, Mike introduces us to some sweet tweeks from the Mystery Circuits Breadbox Synth."

Update via amos_joseph in the comments:
"He doesn't mention it in the video, but this is one of Ray Wilson's Sound Lab synths. Check out http://www.musicfromouterspace.com/ or Mike's Walter's description on his own site: http://www.mysterycircuits.com/projects/minisynth/minisynth.html"

Mystery Circuits Micro Casket

via Mike Walters of Mystery Circuits

"It's a new instrument I finished about a week ago, as a birthday gift for a friend. It's called Micro Casket. The circuits come out of those musical birthday cards, and each had its clock resistor replaced with body contacts. The songs are the ET theme, Superfreak, and Macho Man. The audio causes the red LED to flicker under the jewel lens, and there is a 1/4" output."

Beautiful design, awesome tunes. ;)



YouTube via mysterycircuits
"Built for Nick Speak's 40th birthday. The Micro Casket's sounds come from 3 circuit bent musical birthday cards. The first card plays the E.T. theme, the second plays Super Freak, the third plays Macho Man. Each circuit is identical, and declocked. Touching the metal contacts with the center metal contact affects speed and pitch of each song. Audio controls a red LED under the red jewel lens. The gear controls volume when using 1/4" output.
www.mysterycircuits.com"

Flock of Seaguls - Listen

"What circuit is Mike Score smelling? Dunno, maybe common knowledge.. I've always wondered."

via Mike Walters of Mystery Circuits

If you know, feel free to comment. I'm curious if it's even a synth.

Snuff Box - Empty Room

YouTube via Exulus. Sent my way via Mike of Mystery Circuits.

Mike's Synths

Nice shot sent in by Mike Walters of Mystery Circuits. Also check out these previous posts featuring Mike and Mystery Circuits.

Update: The knob box on the top left is Mike's custom cased version of Ray Wilson's Sound Lab Mini-Synth

Mike Walters' Geeky License Plate

Mike Walters' of Mystery Circuits sent this shot of his Polymoog license plate in. Nice! I'd be honking my ass off if I saw that driving down the street. : )

Bent 2006 Via Inverse Room

Title link takes you shots of this years Bent 2006 in NYC. Inverse Room's band The Bemus Point played Friday.

"It was awesome--nice crowd, lots of smart, creative people, and was that Moby wandering through the crowd? Here's a few pics...I tried to get some performance shots of The Circuit Bending Orchestra and Mystery Circuits (that's Mike Walters' band, the walkman mellotron dude), but it was too dark.

This is a terrific festival, well organized and great fun. Long may it reign.

Best,
Inverse Room"

Image is Mike Walters' gear, of Mysterycircuits.com.

Tara Busch, Two Moogerfoogers and a Pro One

Title link takes you to Tara Busch's MySpace site with a couple of videos. Check out the kit list. I'm guessing that's the Vox Jaguar in the nudie shot. Also worth noting is band member Mike Walters of Mystery Circuits. Via Music Thing.