YES!!!!!--circuit-bending

microtonal only in the loose sense, but damn inspiring:

http://www.f7sound.com/circuitbend.htm

Especially, check out the 'Bent Rap Pad'....

I love the circuit-bending aesthetic, if you can call it that. Divide by Pi is
going for that same thing with more 'traditional' electronics.

yes,I've been posting about this for years here after my old EMI
days....great stuff

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Krister Johnson
<aaron@a...> wrote:
> microtonal only in the loose sense, but damn inspiring:
>
> http://www.f7sound.com/circuitbend.htm
>
> Especially, check out the 'Bent Rap Pad'....
>
> I love the circuit-bending aesthetic, if you can call it that.
Divide by Pi is
> going for that same thing with more 'traditional' electronics.

>microtonal only in the loose sense, but damn inspiring:
>
>http://www.f7sound.com/circuitbend.htm
>
>Especially, check out the 'Bent Rap Pad'....
>
>I love the circuit-bending aesthetic,

It's all the rage. It permeated the halls at Keyboard,
along with the latest indie stuff (which has reached a
level of experimentalism not heard since the early '70s),
and jazz (which is enjoying a wonderful renaissance).

Though it's lost any mainstream bid it ever had, techno,
with C-B, glitch, and other trends, is merging with
traditional music-concrete-descended academic electronic
music in a very nice way.

There are some great C-B workshops in the NY area. I
can dig up details if anybody's interested.

-Carl

akj,

{you wrote...}
>microtonal only in the loose sense, but damn inspiring:

Yep, circuit bending rules. Great DIY spirit, lots of anarchy. Very double-good.

Cheers,
Jon

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Krister Johnson
<aaron@a...> wrote:
> microtonal only in the loose sense, but damn inspiring:
>
> http://www.f7sound.com/circuitbend.htm
>
> Especially, check out the 'Bent Rap Pad'....
>
> I love the circuit-bending aesthetic, if you can call it that.
Divide by Pi is
> going for that same thing with more 'traditional' electronics.

On a related note, Pete Blasser sells musical noise kits:

http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/kittennettik/index.html

The Music Thing blog had a shot of one of these instruments being
"played" by worms wriggling between the brass contact points. Blasser
also plans to release new kits with 8-bit delay/sampling capabilities,
according to the main page: http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/

I'm afraid these instruments don't respond to MTS or load Scala files
either, but should reward anyone who has the time and inclination to
assemble one of the kits.