I learned about circuit bending from an old roommate and now one of my best friends who showed me how on some old toys, stuff from the 99 cent store and some guitar pedals he’d mutilated with new switches and dials that produced some amazing spacey noises, I was fascinated.
Since then I’ve found I seem to enjoy destroying old 80’s distortion pedals and have learned how to solder switches and potentiometers, but it was fun to just molest with my fingers or toes while I play the bass or guitar through ‘em. This makes it so you almost never get the exact same sounds but creates a nice sonic adventure. Using your skin to make the connections produces so much more expressive sounds but the switches are quick and reliable to dial in a particular sound so you can still solder on some body contacts for that.
Kevin did a good job of keeping an open mind and being a good sport to play drums along with these crazy noises. However, we’ve all moved on to other projects by now and still use what we learned during this experiment, this site exists only to commemorate the fun we had making horrible raucous sounds together.
