What is the Purpose of Circuit Bending?

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AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay, so you might be asking yourself or your friends might ask you or your mom might ask you, why would you want to do this? I mean why do you care? Why would you even bother to break something like this open and mess with it? And I don't know. There's a few reasons that circuit benders do this. One of them is kind of more of a I guess a philosophical point of view which is the point of view that everything--we're surrounded by machines, we're surrounded by electronic devices and engines and toasters and coffee pots and all kinds of things that are sort of pre-fabricated and they're given to us and we sort of push their buttons and kind of let them kinda be in and sort of let them be what they are. But actually, these things are made by human beings and you can break into them and you can see how they work and you can modify them. So that's kind of sort of one of the philosophical points of view behind circuit bending is not to accept technology as it is, get in there and learn about it and modify it, okay. But for a more kind of practical point of view, a lot of people who do circuit bending, they do it because they really like the sounds that they make or that they're able to make by rewiring something like this. And that's kind of one of the great appeals of circuit bending is you can--by taking something like this and rewiring it so that it makes sounds that were never intended by the manufacturer, you kind of opening up this whole world of just sound and of tone and of possibilities. And that really turns on a lot of musicians and a lot of artists and so that's kind of another reason why you might want to do this is to basically create something that make sounds that nothing else on Earth can make those sounds. Circuit bending is also a really good way to get into electronics. So just if you are interested and later on, maybe doing more complicated things with electronics, I don't know, maybe you want to build a robot or a computer or something, then circuit bending is a good way to start practicing basic skills like soldering and how to put in basic components, how to put in little buttons and switches and I don't know, but it's also really addicting. I mean I have--me personally, my circuit bending is kinda gotten out of hand but it's something that you can get into and you can end up producing a lot of cool things on your own and you can always be going to thrift stores and looking for new things to circuit bend so it's also a cool hobby as well.

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