“Warranty Void : Childhood Remixed”
These are the early production shots from the piece “Warranty Void” from “Childhood Remixed“, the piece is a circuit bent Nintendo NES. For me when I was around twelve this was my first experience with both chip tune music and circuit bending, after a “traumatic” accident involving my NES I believed I could fix it so I broke it open and started poking the the screwdriver in various places whilst it was still turned on to see what would happen, very dangerous in hindsight. I learned from that early experimentation I was able to freeze a sound or tone, turn some sounds on or off and scramble the graphics. It was really good to “go back” and recreate that initial encounter with that machine and the very moment that got me into the music I make. The piece will be on display in the Town Hall Galleries May 29 – July 11th as part of my “Childhood Remixed” project, allowing people to have a hands on experience of circuit bending and alter the graphics and sound without the risk of electrocution.
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