A2+D4/J.guitar

Connections made between address (A) and data (D) lines on ROM of Casio mt-240.2 on 'J.Guitar' tone.

Flubber Harm

D6+A13 / Percussion: Bb3 - hammer rapidly 10 ten times to slightly stagger a warped and elongated sus. cymbal sample

D0, D1+V & D5+G (after D6+A13 off) in various combinations to cycle the sample at various speeds, pitches, directions, to improvise on. The timings affect each staggered sample differently, scrambling them as setup for the next part

Above a resistance threshold of ~120ohms, V+A13, 14, 15, 16, 17 speeds up the cycle greatly, which sounds like a fast scrub through pitches/timbres/durations

Below the threshold, the cycles seems to freeze and loop on a small (~.100ms to 1s) subsection. Because the ten samples are all scrambled, they make a complex polyrhythm by freezing at different pitches/timbres/durations

Right at the threshold (very precisely, a few ticks on a 10 turn 100 ohm pot will tip it over), the cycles will freeze, jump to a new subsection, and freeze again. How long it freezes for is random, possibly due to slight fluctuations in voltage causing it to tip over

While this is going on, G+A12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 in various combinations lets you exclusively change the timbre. With 10 turn 100 ohm pot, you can tween between the timbres with white noise in between

The limiting factor is mainly that you cannot connect an Address line to both G and V at the same time (this would cause a short circuit and turn off the keyboard)

However, certain combinations of A+V and A+G produce the same sound. So in order to smoothly explore the variety of interesting sounds in this mode, you need to weave between combinations and use these certain special combinations as pivot points

The challenge was finding a balance between sounds I wanted to explore and how reasonable the path to get there was. Last slide is the map of combinations (above) led to the path (below) with steps

Lastly, the 'bells' part uses A0-A12 + G to change 'frequency quality', and the ending was a lucky random effect caused by slowly short circuiting between V+D6+A13+G using a pot

Some edits were done in audacity - crossfading, editing of takes together, compression and eq, but can be performed live

Hysteresis ii

Variations on a theme. One pattern from an Alesis HR16 processed using the drum destruction glitching patchbay.
There is no swing programmed on this pattern. Its just the circuit bent effects doing weird things to the sounds and making it groove.

Circuit bent Alesis HR16 groove loop

From the CDR Radio-Electronics by Infant Mortality Rate released in 2005. All sounds originate from circuit-bent clock radios. These sounds were then collaged together and sometimes processed with reverb etc.

Radio-Electronics

By The Time I Get To Zenith

By The Time I Get To Zenith by IMR from Radio-Electronics (2005)

from the aborted side project "the aphids" 2004 march 7th mastering ver.

if you're different...you fall through the cracks of any system

[2004]
Production by James Earthenware, 
concept, lyrics and bass Dr Aphid

This song is partly about the tragic life of Léon Theremin, inventor of one of the of the first electronic instruments in the 1930's. He ended up owing too much money to banks to continue developing his futuristic devices. So he returned to Russia, only to be thrown into a concentration camp until he was released and forced to invent things of Military significance (such as the world's first bugging device).

I brought Albert Glinsky's biography of Theremin but I couldn't read it because it was too depressing. It is a great injustice that of the smartest people of the last 100 years could not find the freedom to pursue his dreams in either "Democratic" or "Socialist" states due to the respective economic and ideological restrictions that each culture imposed to discourage individuals them from pursuing anything idealistic or radical.
Even in the Soviet Union, none of his contributions could be recognised by the state because officially he didn't even exist and all the work he did was top secret.

Most of the actual lyrics are about a friend's experience living with a mentally handicapped woman called Olga. Although she had apparently escaped the horrors of Soviet institutionalisation, being here in Australia she probably wasn't much better off as she had been left to fend for herself. Eventually her estranged daughter returned from Chicago, sold Olga's house and stuck her in a nursing home before returning to Chicago to leave her mother die alone.

The sample at the start is the death of Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov during the re-entry of Soyuz 1 in 1967. As far as we know the sample is copyright free...if anyone can prove otherwise we will remove it from the mix.
If anyone wants to use the same sample in thier own tracks go to JB HI FI and buy Sound Effects 2 compact disc for 10 dollars. SP11012 (Digimode LTD - 1995) Most of the environmental sounds on these discs are terribly recorded (Ridiculous hiss and background noise) but if you buy a few discs your chances improve of getting something usable.
Overall, "Soviet Reunion" about the governments not caring for individuals welfare (Democratic or Socialist) and people dying as a result. Then years later the governments try and smooth it over by proclaiming those they inadvertently jailed or killed as "Heroes" or as is the case with Islam "Martyrs"..

Dangerous ideals, I fear this state
No empathy, in either place
Your breath smells sweet, Susy's by my side
Call Chicago? Don't waste your time…

And with any luck, I'll make it up those stairs
For the reunion, I'll see you there
Herbie's painting, each and every door
I don't know why, even he's not sure...

archived by giorgio - 2010/12/10 - 14:01

Perception Management (7th March - Mastering Test)

James Earthenware - Soviet Reunion (co written w/ Dr Aphid)

2024. Atari 2600, Yamaha PS-3, Texas Instruments Speak & Spell (circuit bent), Teac 3340s, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

EntrebV_Sw6X

2024. Texas Instruments Speak & Spell (circuit bent), Casio MT-240 (circuit bent), Yamaha PS-3, Teac 3340s, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

SlkCHR$

2024. Casio Rapman (circuit bent), Casio SK-1 (circuit bent), Atari 2600 w/ Synthcart, Teac 3340s, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

Flynthporter

2024. Casio SK-1 (circuit bent), Yamaha PS-3, Teac 3304s, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

RESCnd

Ataricore (2600 Mix} Track 6

2024. Conn Min-O-Matic, Casio SK-1 (circuit bent), Teac 3340s, Tascam 424mkIII, Nakamichi BX-1.

Coremelt

2024. Atari 2600 w/Synthcart, Texas Instruments Speak & Spell (circuit bent), Casio SK-1 (circuit bent), Yamaha PS-3, Teac 3340s, Tascam 414mkII, Nakamichi BX-1.

Seak Traf (Blend)

DELIVERANCE 23

Recorded live on a Zoom H4N with drums, modified hard disks/wwii dynamo bass, circuit bent fx , synths & devices

Ninth Bit is
Psychiceyeclix - Electronics
Lucas Wright - Drums

Recorded by Ninth Bit
Mixed/Mastererd by Psychiceyeclix

1001 >8<062

0001 by Ninth Bit

Emilio

More demo sounds from a circuit bent Alesis Nanoverb 2 effects processor.
Mods include a reclocking knob, a very weird RAM loop/smear switch, and a power switch!

More details at: http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/newsarchive/nanoverb.html

Circuit Bent Alesis Nanoverb 2 - demo 2

Watch the Jam Video on Youtube. https://youtu.be/ryX1MNu8CfA 
Circuit Drums accompanied by analog bass synth thru Kaoss FX with sampled stabs.

Rapid Rawvius

The waves crashed and tore through the sand
A storm carved its mark on the land
I ran through the rain
With a heart full of pain
Grief clung like the sea to my hand


After the Storm 5 27 25

Bambino: One shop destroyed. Three heads split like overripe melons. One man wounded and one castrated. All in two hours. Just two hours I left you alone. Two hours.
Trinity: Well, you asked me to give you a hand.

Soundcloud page for hosting old circuitbenders.co.uk demo recordings

electronic mood control, beats, sound design, chiptunes, sci-fi experiments, no wave soundtracks

Azami Records
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Defiant and diverse melodic/VGM/BGM music.
incl. Sakitto Menda related side-projects. 
Likes late Showa era digital keyboards.

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Smooth and seamless mixing, bangin sinister dnb, booty rumbling bass, purée’d 140’s, heated halftime and a sleek manipulation of controlled dancefloor havoc – Bellingen boy Lucious is a 15 year scene vet selecta that makes and breaks any styled format. Curator of YesPleez! and 2 seperate bass scenes, 4 appearances at Splendour, a stalwart of the east coast underground ecosystem and a regular main stage head among the Australian and Nz festival circuit. With swift and borderline cheeky multi layered mixes and stonkin double drops in tow, we ain’t singing, we bringing drama.

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Beginning in 2022, Lord Brocton, a sweet potato, acquired the assets of Mayday Records and is now in control of this page.
Mayday Records was created to release the recordings of Mr. Phil Aphonic, mostly under the name of Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). Phil also occasionally puts out  music under the alter-ego of frybrain, who is working on a variant of the chopped and screwed style he calls 'scraped and chewed', and most recently Amphibian Fields. Phil was also a member of the noise group Turmoil in the Toybox, and 90's space-punk band Sad Pygmy.

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