Circuit bending Probing for "bend" using a jeweler's screwdriver and alligator clips Circuit bending is the creative, chance-based 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. Experimental process[edit] A 1989 Kawasaki toy guitar used in a circuit bending project A Yamaha PSR-6 used in a circuit bending project. Innovators[edit] In 2009, circuit bending rock band CMKT 4 began touring America teaching workshops on circuit bending and DIY electronics. [9]
Bidouilles. Hacking. Expériences. Découvertes. [Circuit bending] Une Présentation.url Ou l'art de détourner des objets électroniques le plus souvent sonores de provoquer des comportements innatendus tels que des sons bizarroïdes pouvant entrer dans des compositions musicales. C'est extrêmement facile, un niveau scolaire (collège) en électronique permet de pratiquer sans aucune difficulté! Pour commencer à pratiquer il vous faudra donc un peu de matériel électronique comme des pinces crocos, des boutons, des résistances, ainsi bien sûr d'appareils électroniques tel que de vieux jouets à piles auquel vous ne tenez plus trop. Ensuite démontez-en un et parcourez le circuit imprimé en connectant au hasard certains points pour y faire jaillir du bruit! Vous trouverez plus d'infos sur cet art dans les références ci-dessous. Reférences: Quelques liens en vrac: Deux livres recommandés pour débuter, ils sont complémentaires et en anglais technique (c'est à dire très abordable même pour l'anglophobe moyen):
Circuit bending Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Le circuit bending désigne l'activité qui consiste à court-circuiter de façon volontaire des instruments de musique électroniques de faible tension électrique, fonctionnant sur piles (jouets pour enfants munis de haut-parleur, effets pour guitare, petits synthétiseurs) de façon à créer de nouveaux générateurs de sons. Mettant en avant la spontanéité et le côté aléatoire des modifications, le circuit bending est communément associé à la musique bruitiste. Le principe[modifier | modifier le code] D'autres composants peuvent améliorer l'utilisation de l'appareil bendé : potentiomètres, photorésistances, capteurs de pression, etc. La chance est un élément clé dans la pratique du circuit bending, et il existe un risque que certains court-circuits grillent l'appareil. Les débuts du circuit bending[modifier | modifier le code] Bends courants[modifier | modifier le code] Benders connus[modifier | modifier le code] Annexes[modifier | modifier le code]
Circuit Bent — Circuit Bent Instruments aaa.url circuit-bending YOU can circuit-bend. The following discussion will start new benders on the right path. Also see the Anti-Theory Workshop section, the various instrument galleries and the PSF interview with Reed for additional insights into the process. If you learn to solder and can drill a small hole to mount a switch in, you can circuit-bend. Audio toys not only are easy to circuit-bend, but also are capable of sonic eccentricities beyond belief. Also important, audio toys are low-voltage devices. Circuitbenders - Custom built electronic audio insanity machines.url DIY Audio Stuff.url First, I must mention the best DIY pro audio board on the web, "The Lab" . My projects are/have been: Neve 1290 clone RCA BA31A clone My own preamp design Gyraf G1176 Jensen JE990 discrete op-amp - built one. Fairchild 660 rough clone - I built it by following half of the 670 schematic but substituting some tubes. LA4 rough clone - improved audio path, high-speed opto compression mode - haven't finished it yet My own SSM2081 feedback compressor design Neve 2254 Compressor - nice compressor. Gates M6629 Modifications. Figuring out how the Lexicon ARU chip works. Some of my observations on reverbs Processing on some reverbs I like This part is not for the faint of heart..... but if you want to build your own microphone capsules, here are a lot of bread crumbs here to help you along. Vacuum Evaporation for microphone diaphragms Some Strange DIY Capsules Other Capsules (Not mine) . DIY Copper Tube Mic . Making the M7 copy capsules . Debenham, Stebbings, and Robinson mic capsule . Tensioning a diaphragm .
osccom.url circuit_bending.definition( ) Term coined by q.r. ghazala to describe modifications made to electronic toys and cheap electronic instruments by connecting various points of their circuits in ways that were not meant to be in order to modify the existing sounds and to create unexpected effects or unpredictable noises. circuit_bending.info( ) This kind of modifications have been made by various people since the early 70’s (and before on less ‘popular’ devices) but have only recently gained popularity, because of articles in papers like ‘experimental musical instruments‘ or on various websites. Circuit bending is in fact just one recent instance of a century-old tradition of messing up technology to create artistic devices. And circuit bending is also a way to (more or less) easily make new (more or less) original electronic musical instruments that don’t cost lots of money, which is always a good thing for most musicians :).