circuit bending

circuit bending (uncountable)

1. The creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as children's toys and small digital synthesizers in order to create new musical or visual instruments.
   • 2007, Richard Colson, The Fundamentals of Digital Art, AVA Publishing, →ISBN, page 46:

     There is some circuit-bending done with devices that generate video, but not much as the price of such devices is generally too high to make circuit-bending’s random (and often destructive) results worthwhile.

   • 2014, William Forde Thompson, Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia:

     Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic.

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