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"

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.