IP-ART Circuit Bending Workshop
As part of Ipswich IP-ART festival this year I got to pilot and idea I had for a hands on circuit bending workshop, often is the case I would demonstrate circuit bending as part of a lecture, but I have always wanted the audience to take part.
It was great I had about twenty participants who had come to learn about circuit bending. I bought a huge box of cheap keyboards around £3 each, 100+ crocodile clips and 40 potentiometers, and step by step I talked them through the basics of circuit bending, and it was an amazing sound having twenty people poke around inside keyboards all at once.
I think for most of them it was the “permission” to take apart the keyboard that they found novel, it was a new keyboard of little or no value and they were allowed to take it apart. They weren’t afraid of being told off for doing it or it being broken in the process.
About an hour into it, the workshop went on autopilot which is exactly the way it should be, they were all very comfortably experimenting with sounds on their own. I briefly stopped them from time to time to hand out additional crocodile clips and components to add to their keyboard and after two hours of it all ended. It was great they all got to experiment safely with sound and circuit bending, and even better I let them all take their new instruments and components.
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