circuit bending

noun

Definitions

  1. The creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as children's toys and small…

    The creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as children's toys and small digital synthesizers in order to create new musical or visual instruments.

    • There is some circuit-bending done with devices that generate video, but not much as the price of such devices is generally too high to make circuit-bending’s random (and often destructive) results worthwhile.
    • Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for circuit bending. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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