Here are some links to other sites relating to Circuit Bending and DIY electronic instruments. There's also some other links to cool sites at the bottom.
CIRCUITBENDING & DIY INSTRUMENTS:
Circuitbenders Forum - The circuitbenders.co.uk forum.
www.anti-theory.com - Reed Ghazala's site, the grandaddy of circuit bending. Loads of tips and images.
Tim kaiser - Click on the 'Atomic Sonic' link for some of the best circuitbent stuff you will ever see.
www.miniorgan.com - A museum of 'lost organs, damned keyboards, childish synthesisers, dusty voice transformers and sinding calculators'. Kind of like the datamath site but for horribly cool tacky crap :)
Carrionsound.com - Top quality website with loads of circuitbent instruments and diy modular synth stuff.
Warranty Void - Excellent site with loads of circuit bending tips and instruments.
www.datamath.org - Info on Texas Instruments machines. Check out the German 'buddy' Speak&Maths.
www.oddmusic.com - Articles by Reed Ghazala on bending
www.simulated.net - Bending Speak&Maths/Casio SK1
Yahoo groups - Circuit benders group at Yahoo
circuitbending.com - Loads of circuit bent instruments, These guys are nutters.
S&S Simulation - This is just totally insane. A virtual circuit bent Speak&Spell machine. Whats going on?
Oaklysound.com - DIY TB303 and TR909 in kit form. Analogue filters etc. Loads of cool stuff.
cementimental.com - Loads of links for circuitbending and experimental music.
Machinenoise - Sexy looking bending site, check out the Q-bent drum machine built into a phone.
Synthzone - massive resource for synths and electronic music in general
Roilnoise - Centre for the disturbing arts, theres a Flash bent speak&read in there somewhere.
OTHER COOL STUFF
www.vintagesynth.org - Good site for info and specs of old synths and analogues.
Velcro-city - Science fiction, science fact, art, music, culture, technology, weird and wonderful stuff. Top quality blog positively succulent with random cool shit!
www.ruskeys.net - Oh yes, the archive of Russian made analogue synths. If anyone wants to supply us with a Polivoks we''re more than happy to take it off your hands.
www.electricstuff.co.uk - Total insane genius. Blowing up CD's by accelerating them from 0-150mph in 1/1000th of a second, Tesla coils, Nixie tube clocks, BIG valves, frying circuits with 5KV. Destruct-o-tron! We stand in total awe!
Lateral science - Victorian science website, Experimenting with Weapons-Grade Fissile Material in the Home, 'Unbelievably dangerous magic tricks for the magician with a death wish', Professor Hughes` flystep amplifier!
www.bigclive.com - Dangerous electronics things to make and do.
ElectraMento - A gratuitous plug for one of our mates labels. Lots of cool stuff to listen to.
Acoustics Hut - WAV files documenting the development of speech synthesis. Some of this stuff will drive you insane.
meat beat manifesto - breakbeat/dub/old skool/industrial/drum&bass, you name it. Jack Dangers is in a class of his own. Big fans of analogue wierdness and Circuit Bent instruments.
Tinocorp - What is it with Jack Dangers? He's the Elvis of electronic music, the uber-lord of breakbeat. More bizarre breaks and dub-tastic noise from Mr Dangers, this time under the guise of Tinocorp
www.hevydevy.com - Homepage of Devin Townsend, metal god and probably one of the best producers out there.
Strapping Young Lad - Fancy being crushed under a relentless slab of sound? Devin Townsends extreme metal band.
Warp Records - Onetime home of Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, u-ziq, autechre etc etc.
Amon Tobin - Mad kind of dense Aphex Twinnish stuff on Ninja Tune. Very sexy website.
Cobweb audio - Loads of samples to download with a cool acapella's page with classic vocal samples.
Downhillbattle - Are you aware that ordinary families in the US are getting taken to court by major record labels for downloading music from the internet. This is just obscene! Get more info here.
Bionic systems - Some of the best web design you will ever see. very impressive stuff.
HardSid - Commodore 64 SID chip synths on a PCI card. Up to four SID chips on each card!
Tapelab.org - Yet more Jack Dangers / Meat Beat Manifesto stuff. Not entirely sure what this is all about.
Yamaha Manual library - The very well hidden library of old Yamaha manuals. All the VSS range are available.
Oldskool sound - French synth site but has loads of old english manuals available for download.
EMS - For those of you who drool at the sight of an EMS-VCS3, the EMS home page! You can still get a VCS3 or a Synthi-A custom built for you for between £1600 and £1800. We'll take 3!!!
