Meanings
- uncountableThe creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as children's toys and small digital synthesizers in order to create new musical or visual instruments.
Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic.
2014, William Forde Thompson, Music in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Encyclopedia1 more example
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.
2007, Richard Colson, The Fundamentals of Digital Art, AVA Publishing, →ISBN, page 46
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