Circuitastrophe - circuit bending symposium, gallery installations, and performances continues through the weekend and into Monday. The CAC is involved, as well as art performance spaces of new and old - Semantics, Murmur, The Mockbee, and ArtDamage Lounge. But I suggest you just go - instead of giving more hits to Myspace. In short, - tehe - circuit bending is a type of aural experimentation that seems to follow the mantra: If it can be made it can also be taken apart...
Circuit benders use anything at all to manipulate and produce noise
non-traditionally - this often includes noisy children's toys. I've
witnessed circuit bending, yes, in New York, and know some "circuit
benders", but news to me, Cincinnatian Reed Ghazala is the founder of
the movement. For more information, Wikipedia and other sources give a
more thorough and informed description. To really understand what is
going on in circuit bending these days you need to go and see and hear
it for yourself. It's not a question of "why?" it's more an answer of
"why not?"
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