Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending: Sound Builders
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
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Listen up: We're running a special rebroadcast of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise (and the people rethinking how to make it), all week on Motherboard. We hope it tides you over until the forthcoming season of Sound Builders, which you can catch on Motherboard next month.
First, let's revisit Reed Ghazala, who's been called the father of circuit bending.
"I've been accused of starting the first electronic art movement," Ghazala told us back in 2010. "If that's true, that was better than the other things I could've done."
Clad entirely in purple, a sort of modular J. Mascis, Ghazala would show us his boyhood home in suburban Cincinnati-where the chance-driven sound generating technique was born in the late 1960s-before we holed up at his Anti-Theory Workshop on the other side of town. There, he played our flesh (seriously) and an array of other manipulated consumer electronics, all blipping and blorping to the rush of simply not knowing what you're going to get when you bend, say, a children's toy radio.
Stay tuned for the premiere of Sound Builders season two right here on Motherboard.
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Thanks for taking the time to make this. Reed needs to be reminded how much influence he has/had on the circuit bending community.
I have his book and have done several successful projects due to his knowledge. Thanks Reed!! Brilliant!
This man encouraged me to circuit bend my laptop, he should not have done that - I am typing this comment from my phone.
I consider Reed Ghazala a mentor or sorts. I'm very honored to have even corresponded with him on several occasions. He's been a major inspiration on me and my art and my music for years. I was already an experimental synth musician and it was because of him, many years ago, that I ended up learning about short circuiting things to get amazing strange sounds to push my music to the next level of strangeness.
lOl I mAdE my tOaStEr a sYnth anD noW My CaT RuNs aWay wHeN I PlAy It LoLllL
Actually, it's my wife who runs away screaming with her hands covering her ears most of the time, but other than that, you hit the nail on the head. Haha!
im glad we had this conversation
Found out about Circuit Bending from Look Mum No Computer and now I've finally decided to give it a shot after seeing this. Time to dig through my shed for old electronics.
Did you do anything
@Europio stupid reply.
Did you do anything
Did you do anything
Did you do anything
"a lot of people build an incantor to enter the field".
Yep, with Reed's book as my guide and a speak and spell here. And that was that. Been hooked on a kind of cross over of synth diy and circuit bending ever since. He is i'd say something of a visionary. Where 99.999% would have just tossed that circuit malfunction in the bin, he took a walk down fascinaton street and opened a door for those so inclined to step through and explore.
"Skrillex....I AM YOUR FATHER!!"
In all seriousness, the kind of glitch sounds he demonstrates here are more similar to grime, dubstep and other recent electronic music genres than pretty much anything prior 1995. With a 30 year head start, it seems likely that circuit benders and their experiments were influential to these recent developments. This guy really is a revolutionary!
and just think...if it werent for circuits and people who experimented with them...We ALL wouldn't be typing a damn thing on no interwebs...There wouldnt be any.
2 words... aphex twin
It also sounds just like the industrial band Throbbing Gristle!
So this is what Richard Stallman does when hes not eating things off his feet.
@manyHats I laughed so hard thank you
I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought this.
oh my god thanks for this comment
finding cool sounds by interpreting signals in malfunctioning electronics as sound is so magical! what a legend ❤️
Awesome, thank you Reed. Awesome work Motherboard. A comprehensive crash course on Circuit Bending in under ten minutes.
-ONO
I know it's late, but thank you for this treasure of a video.
A real nice expirience in electronic music.
I always loved this video. I thought I had old comments on here?
We thank you Reed.
What a beautiful soul, I can feel the wisdom and kindness of this man through my screen. A bodhisattva in disguise.
i am studying embedded systems and i came across this on a wikipedia article! i am so excited as a music nerd to know such a thing exists. what a gift to humanity!
I've always admired this guy so much, since I was a kid, I started with mecano and now I'm a computer scientist but music is my true passion ;)
Like a mad scientist! I wanna take some bong rips with this man.
Like a mad scientist, Rodriguez is there!
I got his book for my birthday randomly many years ago. awesome stuff
Way to make the Duracell battery logo way more noticeable than it otherwise would have been by censoring it.
It's not about making something visible or awareness. It's about having the rights, or paying royalties to show a brand.
*FABULOUS* Life work. Thank you, Reed!
I have now converted to Circuit bending.
This is like the coolest thing ever
Thank you for the video and revealing me to this great man, my inspiration tank has be overcharged I am ready to bend some circuits!
excellent!
I’m just getting into bending and I live in Cincinnati…!! I might see if he is still in the area and see if he would be okay with me visiting haha awesome stuff!
Awesome!!
Gracias!!!
Nice .. Inspiring
Wow I love it
Reminds me of Bruce Haacks creations. That vid of him with Mr Rogers is dope.
Fantastic
I can relate to him being a kid in New Orleans taking transistor radios and circuit bending to make musical note. I would speed hours and hours experimenting.
Had been on a trip to think about even trying that
What a legendary dude! Great video. Some of the people doing this should learn from the Inventor to share what they're doing and not keep it secret! 😎❤️👍
This is dope❤❤❤❤
j'adore cet homme _ merci
this was dope.
What is the Buddha box thing actually called?
Superb
Maestro Ghazala !!!
Good dude
wow this makes circuit bending seem far easier than I thought
The interviewer worked hard on this one!
0:59 Leo from that 70s Show :D
Brilliant mind
That shed looks like a fire hazard.
A magical fire hazard
what a Man!!!!!
He needs to be on TEDtalks
Does anyone know what the name of that hand tool he is using to punch holes? A hand bore, or an awl or something? It seems specific but very handy.
How do you make that Buddha box with the skin playing someone help me
swap out the resistor with wires soldered to metal contacts, then lick them!
I keep breaking circuits just by one wrong touch. This guy is a genius
A kitch bent episode now!
5:40 cool Buddhism mantra
does Merzbow use circuit bending?
You want to get into electronics but don't know where to start? Get Reed's book, or a I get the feeling he'd say, take something apart and start poking around and connecting things that weren't connected before.
He's like a techno-hippy.
Where did you get that 05:09 Tibetan chantbox; somebody knows that?
Yes somebody knows that.
@@haywoodyoudome Great, I`m glad that knowledge is out there.
One time I pressed an aux cable against ny cheek when it was plugged into my stereo. It made a weird sound. My friend then placed it against his forehead, and it made a completely different sound!
We are electric beings in an electric universe!
Why are you blurring out all the Duracell batteries? :D
Do a video on gaming consoles, i'm a child of the 80s, that time period rocked. Velcro shoes and corduroy pants, vip voosh vip voosh
Now that's a shed.
Tight
❤❤❤
:-) !!!!!!!!!
I am in Love !!!!!!!!
!!!!! :-) !!!!!
getting some signals
7:41
What I learn is ANYTHING
ANYTHING can happen
Slick
un loco lindo
fuck i wanna have a circuit bent buddha box!
gave thumbs up for buddha box. what an amazing thing
Damn. These new videos have made me motherbored
That's because you are unfamiliar with or don't appreciate electronic/analog music.
Leland Booher stick the thumb back up your ass and get lost
Hey man I'm looking for a vhs cloning with colors
I bet he smokes a spliff and starts circuit bending
It amazes me that when you falsely turn on or off transistors in the sillicon you get crazy behaviour
fun
hes fully polyphonic mechatronic turbotronic electronic
What about the mother?
ET, Phoooooone Hoooooome!
Check out “Kaleidoclap” by Buckethead…..lots of circuit bending 🎸🐓
Why censor the battery?
+Chase Ramos apparently they haven't heard of free advertising.
+MixZ Apparently you haven't heard of copyright.
It's the law.
All hail the Maharishi of bent-ness of Sir-Q-it's
his clothes are from the Miami County Prison...cool
circuit bending compilation here ua-cam.com/video/EWtzzqQNMqg/v-deo.html
This may be what I want to do with my life..
yo skrill drop it hard!
"Here's where I hide my weed" lol
???
Reed ghazala?
theremin?
It sounds like dubstep
Why does it feel like I'm watching a low budget horror film
Trippy shit
Magpie brought me here?
Couldn't Raymond Scott be considered the first?
7:20 TIS BE NOISE BITCHES!!!
Bulda chagin master
can someone circuit bend my omnichord?
This definitely wouldn’t be the best hobbie if you were deaf!!!
Witch hausssssss
Why's he wearing scrubs?
This could have been such a better video. The topic is amazing, but the "interviewer" was just terrible.
Great subject... Great Person to interview.....
Should have covered so much more about the circuit bending