For a lot of us some sort of audio circuit was our first endeavor into electronics. Speak and Spell, atari punk console, LM386 in a mint tin, sound familiar? If not, you should do yourself a favor and ...

For the third episode of The Future of Music, I’m in Margate, England, standing in front of 44 Furbies that have been hacked and wired together to create a giant, playable organ. You might have seen ...

[Pete Edwards] and [Fred Owsley] openly admitted that the title was the most thinly veiled audience-bait ever constructed. Nevertheless, they poured through a great talk covering the basics of circuit ...

Moog Music was born when a young Bob Moog started tinkering with electronic circuitry. As a boy, Moog built small radios, amps, and Theremins in his basement workshop with his father and the rest is ...

Dig this: he’s been at it for almost half a century. 40 years to be specific. The name’s Rheed Ghazala and he’s a circuit bender. A circuit what? Circuit bender. He noodles around with ...

The robot monkeys prepared to do battle as two dozen cracked-open toy pianos bleated a symphony of mutated children's songs. Enterprising geeks prodded the toys' exposed innards with alligator clips, ...

Circuit-bending, or bending for short, is a method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound, which is often alien ...

We’ve all seen circuit-bent Speak ‘n Spells and other audio equipment, but what happens when you do this stuff to a video feed? A physical hand actually reaches ...

When the occasional brand X keyboard shows up in Goodwill or thrift stores, they’re nearly always in need of some TLC. Which is where guys like Mike Walters come in. Walters, an A/V guy who repairs ...

There’s a recent phenomena spreading across the internet, though circles of hackers, gear nerds and musicians. All it takes to gain entrance is a little know-how and maybe a Speak & Spell. Circuit ...

Thanks to Howard and Christian of Partyshank, I finally have a term to use when describing the glitchy bleep-bloop technoise used in their music... but what on earth is 'circuit bending'? NIN, Aphex ...