BPOW Festival Celebrates the Art of Salvaged Sound
The BPOW festival in Portland, organized by Molecule Synth’s Travis Feldman, celebrates circuit bending and electronic music.
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Build a Hackable Bytebeat Player at the RI Mini Maker Faire
The Rhode Island Mini Maker Faire is this Saturday, featuring dozens of makers alongside the usual music and shenanigans of AS220’s annual Foo Fest. Each year we run a soldering workshop as part of the Faire; this year we’ll be making a hackable bytebeat player from Modern Device, the Byteseeker Junior. The Byteseeker is an […]
Circuit Bending Bacteria with the Fuel Cell Symphony
A look at Gilberto Esparza’s latest project, the Fuel Cell Symphony, which converts water samples and the unique bacterial agents contained therein into audio. Esparza refers to his art-meets-science setup as “DJ Microscope.”
Game Boy Pitch Bending Turntable
Andrew “MilLs Dj” Miller’s modified DJ Hero turntable allows you to bend the sound and gameplay speed of any Game Boy game! [via GetLoFi]
Noys Toise Circuit-Bending Documentary
This documentary, filmed by Craig Mederios, details the work of Tanner Galvin who creates electronic musical instruments out of broken toys.
Dangerous TV Circuit Bend Visualizes Audio
If you feel competent enough, you too can hack an old CRT television to display visuals from an audio input.
Arduino-Based Drum Machine
Circuit bender Dr. Bleep built this sweet Arduino-compatible drum machine, the Bleep Drum, with four sounds, four selectable sequences, tap tempo, record and playback, and more. Of course it’s open source and eminently hackable.
