Bender

The next install­ment in the “bleep” series takes a kind of DIY mad-sci­ent­ist approach to mak­ing music. Bleep #2 is all about “cir­cuit bend­ing”: the art of tor­tur­ing, trans­plant­ing, and graft­ing elec­tron­ic sound-mak­ing devices so that they make more inter­est­ing sounds. Start with some mass-pro­duced techno-toy from the Ware­house, the sort of thing that make irrit­at­ing elec­tron­ic noises, and attack it with screw­drivers and sol­der­ing irons to coax more inter­est­ing (and yes, prob­ably more irrit­at­ing) noises from its innards. The street finds its own uses for tech­no­logy, indeed!

It is a two-part event, con­sist­ing of an inter­act­ive wor­shop this Sunday after­noon, fol­lowed by a gig at Happy next Wed­nes­day. Full details are on the bleep web­site.