Circuit bending progenitor Reed Ghazala has new ideas to share – with invisible rays

“Father of Circuit Bending” Reed Ghazala isn’t done transforming musical bending techniques. For starters, there’s this magnetic-patch, chip-talk, chance-based aleatron reincarnation of a Casio keyboard – now with plasma-based radiation. You know, like the energy weapons in sci-fi films. Oh, and a glass eyeball and underlighting.

The Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies

Eat your heart out, Roland V-Accordion. Meet the Commodordion, an 8-bit chip instrument with bellows made of floppies and gaffer tape – and a surprisingly deep feature set.

Peter Kirn - October 24, 2022

That time the band Journey made an Atari 2600 game

As Atari celebrates its 50th year, why not recall the pinnacle of gameplay that was “Journey: Escape” – the vivid Atari 2600 title to match the band.

Peter Kirn - September 28, 2022

A bubble wrap-popping organ, by Simone Giertz and team, is sure to be your new favorite thing

Peter Kirn - September 12, 2022

Crank it up: A noble and elegant simulation of playing French Horn for Playdate

Peter Kirn - June 10, 2022

Bentō is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box by Giorgio Sancristoforo

Peter Kirn - March 21, 2022

Eyeballs, errors, and animal keys: Reed Ghazala’s wild circuit-bent electronics keep evolving

Peter Kirn - February 10, 2022

Sequence sounds out of emoticons-icons with this surprisingly addictive free website

Peter Kirn - January 28, 2022

Watch this Kazakh pop video for the maximum weirdness of Casio’s singing robot keyboard

Peter Kirn - January 21, 2022

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