Monday, March 27, 2017

These Circuit-Bent Instruments and Sounds Are Simply Gorgeous #MusicMonday

via CDM

Mention “circuit bending” and you may think of someone making unlistenable noise on a Speak & Spell they … broke. But in the grand tradition of Reed Ghazala, circuit bending can mean instruments that have exquisitely mutated from vintage devices, resplendent in new paint and making bizarre but wonderful new sounds.

I guess you can think of it as the difference between a conservatory-trained woodwind quintet and … the sound of your first-grade music class playing those plastic recorders.

Ivo Ivanov is squarely in the master builder category. We can drool over his visually beautiful creations, in this gallery here.

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