Circuit Bending!!
In this video, I demonstrate my circuit bent casio PT-80. It features an 8 port patch pay, a pitch/tempo wheel, and a photosensitive resistor for controlling basslines.
Nostalgia and sentimentality are powerful forces in media construction, and they are also one of the junk-artist’s greatest allies. In this project, we took an atari 2600 and a Realistic Concertmate 500 (a clone of the Casio SK-1) and fused the two together to create one circuit bent monster!
In this video, I give a more complete demo of the tones made by this incredible machine.
As I began to accumulate more and more circuit bent instruments on my shelf, I began to wonder: “what are we going to do with all this stuff?” So I put out a call among the labbies for circuit benders, I helped a few people make some instruments of their own, and thus we formed a rather odd sounding band that is the ACTLab Circuit Bent Orchestra.