What is Circuit Bending?

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remember
never bend something plugged into the wall
you could die
battery powered devices only
unless u really know what your are doing
bending is a great, easy and fun way to get into electronics
many benders move on to learning how to create their own circuits

This Short/Preview for the Circuit Bending Documentary by Derek Sajbel ( features Q.R. Ghazala, Nebula Girl, The Shinths, Daedelus, Dave Wright, Cynthia and music by Venetian Snares was compiled of footage shot during 2003 (4 years and shooting) of primarily answers to the question "What is Circuit Bending?"

love it or hate it, it's here to stay and growing fast

the ending font is decidedly cryptic, and requires pausing to read
the links are somewhat expired, here's updated links



the final documentary is forthcoming
but in the mean time I have made DVDs of the
International Bending fest BENT 2004 and ( ) 2005 and 2006

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Channel: Music
Uploaded: March 11, 2006 at 2:07 am
Author: DrRek

Length: 00:05:43
Rating: 3.85
Views: 557225

Tags: circuitbent Circuit Bending documentary bent circuitbending toys post consumer daedelus weird alien sound absurd

Video Comments:
mrgrimzr (July 7, 2008 at 9:34 pm)
Try bending an AM/FM radio and recording it on a cassette player, only to bend the cassette player as it plays the cassette of the bent radio... does that make sense..? It's like.. double bent or some shit. magical. I swear, nothing's more fascinating than stoned circuit bending. Just about bent myself to sleep last night.
eatshrots (May 11, 2008 at 7:35 am)
omg yeah..i was dying when i saw that part lol
Jordan3312 (May 11, 2008 at 7:26 am)
"it's broken, No it's not, that's a new feature" Zomg that's so good!
br0adcaster1 (May 10, 2008 at 8:20 pm)
i tried it and burnt my house down...
alixtron (May 10, 2008 at 2:18 am)
i think my speakers are broke - it sounds like my computer's throwing up in my brain.
KamuntKurush (May 8, 2008 at 5:05 am)
I don't see how anyone could not like this. This is so freaking incredible, seriously.
VJFranzK (May 5, 2008 at 3:22 am)
A fine introduction to an interesting scene! ;-)
Inafinus (May 5, 2008 at 2:15 am)
Anything that creates a sound, yeah, pretty much.

Just follow the instructions in the description!
MasterCorruptor (May 1, 2008 at 2:06 am)
looks like you can circuit bent anything with a circuit board...

By the looks of it you only need wires, resistors, a solder and possibly some rheostats here and there...

Looks like a rather random process though...

It's like he said.. trial and error

looks like fun though... i wish i could try this =)
Diegog5 (April 25, 2008 at 5:11 am)
To me circuit bending is just ridicules. I'm not a genius but I'm smart enough to know how circuit boards work and getting this stupid sounds out of them is just dumb.