[Pete Edwards] and [Fred Owsley] openly admitted that the title was the most thinly veiled audience-bait ever constructed. Nevertheless, they poured through a great talk covering the basics of circuit ...

The Oregon baseball team is one of the top- ranked teams in the Big Ten. Now, that’s not a bad place to be heading into the postseason, but... There’s a recent phenomena spreading across the internet, ...

For the third episode of The Future of Music, I’m in Margate, England, standing in front of 44 Furbies that have been hacked and wired together to create a giant, playable organ. You might have seen ...

The Bent Festival in New York City is a circuit-bending convention where adventurous geeks rewire toys and electronic gadgets. From NPR New, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Lynn Neary. For some people, a ...

We’ve all seen circuit-bent Speak ‘n Spells and other audio equipment, but what happens when you do this stuff to a video feed? A physical hand actually reaches ...

Dig this: he’s been at it for almost half a century. 40 years to be specific. The name’s Rheed Ghazala and he’s a circuit bender. A circuit what? Circuit bender. He noodles around with ...

The robot monkeys prepared to do battle as two dozen cracked-open toy pianos bleated a symphony of mutated children's songs. Enterprising geeks prodded the toys' exposed innards with alligator clips, ...

For a lot of us some sort of audio circuit was our first endeavor into electronics. Speak and Spell, atari punk console, LM386 in a mint tin, sound familiar? If not, you should do yourself a favor and ...

Rewiring audio toys to make new sounds. It involves exposing the circuit board in a device such as a Texas Instruments "Speak & Spell" toy and short circuiting leads until an unusual sound is ...

Thanks to Howard and Christian of Partyshank, I finally have a term to use when describing the glitchy bleep-bloop technoise used in their music... but what on earth is 'circuit bending'? NIN, Aphex ...