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anyone had a go at circuit bending toys? if so any suggestions of novice projects? thanks teeth |
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hey did you see my message ? loved your art mr.teeth .....really funny stuff ... i can imagine many smiles and fun at your art showings. i posted a message in one of your threads. i'll try n find it. |
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first thing you need to do is to get some nice little crocodile clips. Also if you get the circuit board and press it into paper you can keep track of what works. |
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1. go to goodwill or thrift store with about $10 or GBP equivalent 2. find some casio keytone type keyboards or speak & spell or toy 3. get some wires & alligator clamps from radioshack or elsewhere and make sure you have at least a screwdriver, possibly a soldering iron if things break 4. do it |
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Also if you get the circuit board and press it into paper you can keep track of what works. Good idea, never thought of that |
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if you're going to circuit bend, take all your shit as far away from anyone else as possible, so no one can hear you. then, dont bother. |
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if you can still find a furby somewhere they're well easy to make a load of stupid bendy noise with |
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as the results are often much better when circuit bent instruments are used 'here and there' within a much larger body of musical ideas. Case in point: AFX. I think that's the only way to use it in terms of letting other people hear what you're doing, which I wouldn't really do if it wasn't requested of me and I think I've heard both RDJ and AE say that it was other people that suggested they actually release stuff. it's not interesting otherwise by itself, that's true, there's not enough in there to stand-alone. |
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Yeah, that's a good "philosophy" of sorts... If you don't plan on sharing the music with anyone, then by all means "limit" (I use the term loosely) yourself to solely bent instruments. You've just got to do more, for the most part, if you want others to pay attention. Are you making music that includes circuit-bent instruments? I'd like to hear it if you're planning on releasing it at some point. Keep me posted. :] |
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lol I decided upon waking up this morning I'd circuit bend my old, long forgotten Yamaha DJX box thing. Cruddy piece of shit barely goes for £30 on eBay. I found a chip inside this metal housing that really really screws EVERYTHING up. I added two switches: - one seems to freeze the clock, then switching it off makes the clock run very fast to catch up with everything. while it's on, you can get some really nice glitchy ambient pads out of it. - the other just generally screws everything up and crashes it totally. I might add a pot to it and see if I can get it to be less sensitive. |
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