Circuit bending is the creative customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators.
Emphasizing spontaneity and randomness, the techniques of circuit bending have been commonly associated with noise music, though many more conventional contemporary musicians and musical groups have been known to experiment with "bent" instruments. Circuit bending usually involves dismantling the machine and adding components such as switches and potentiometers that alter the circuit.
I've been doing circuit bending for about 9 years now, i've always (been) facinated with electronic in general, and just picking them apart and figuring out how they work.It's a technique that incorporates creative customization of circuits in electronic devices like children's toys, synthetizers and other low voltage electronic.I'm a big fan of avant garde and experimental music, which are really broad terms, it really just comes naturally, so don't throw away your old credit card machines, computers or toasters, you could make them into musical instrument.
