WOW Circuit Bending is the Answer!

What was the question?

How do you get crazy cool 8-bit audio samples and sounds? Check out FastMatt's Speak and Spell mods. There's this whole culture of 'circuit-bending' and FastMatt has turned into a great little business for himself. These guys break into funky 70s and 80s electronic devices (like a Casio keyboard or a Speak and Spell). Then they randomly connect wires across circuits to funk up the sound.

Think Beck meets Frank Zappa.

Highly Liquid is another company that plays with this. They create MIDI interfaces and outboard cross-patching consoles. Pretty sweet.

I want one. Maybe next month. This month I already bought that video camera, and I think I'm buying a digital still camera after work today.

Who'd have though assembling staples would be so financially lucrative. Thank god(dog) for bureaucracy.