Mr Speaker

Can’t you see this site is under-construction? Jeez… go over to the old blog in the mean time… Possession of low-voltage consumer electronics. A love of very noisy things. A do-it-yourself aesthetic - Do you possess these items and/or attributes? Then come join the Circuit Bending hoedown! It’s disturbing and easy! Here’s the how and why (no, actually, the how and what)…

Circuit Bending is the art of messing with the electronics inside of stuff that makes noise, in order to make new and more useful random noise. The goal is to augment gadgets, kids toys, guitar pedals and cheap synths with new knobs, buttons, switches and “body contacts” that boldly go where no manufacturer would ever be bothered going.
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Awwww yeeeeaahh booooooyyy… APEC Sound System in full effect - Asia-Pacific Economic Crew gunna rock it! A week of Sydney tour dates, culminating in a massive heads-of-state break-off in full gang colours. Should be awesome!

As part of the tour Mix-Master Johnny H has organised for a banging sound system to be set up throughout the city.

They haven’t started cranking tunes out yet - though apparently there was some freakin’ loud glitch-noise samples pumping out earlier - hopefully a sign of things to come!
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