circuit bending
nounDefinitions
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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