Just did my first lecture at The British Academy of New Music, it was packed, and probably my highest attendance for one of my lectures so far. I often find it strange when I do these lectures when few or no people have heard of either chip tune music or circuit bending music, mainly because I am so immersed in it, which makes it all the more fun when I bring both types of music to new people.

I did an outline of explaining what circuit bending is, and then in front of them hacked up a brand new kids keyboard out of a box, I wanted to show them how much fun it is and how simple some of the hacks can be. I think they were also quite shocked by what you could achieve with so few extra components and very little money.

I then moved on to chip tune music, and improvised with the Music Tech Pro Performer, again it was something new to a lot of them, and several hands and questions were raised.

Overall it was great, and it was a very varied group in terms of their individual musical interests and yet at the same time being very open minded about sourcing different sounds. I got to talk to some of the students after the lecture, in which they told me about what they are all studying and how it’s been a real positive thing to be involved in. It’s a fantastic music facility and it was a very fun lecture.