Wednesday, March 14, 2012

ERROR STATE

A number of years ago when I was in film school, one of my classmates made a brilliant short film about an artist who made strange sounds by taking children's musical electronics (little keyboards and speak-and-spells), cracking open their plastic cases, pushing their buttons, AND licking his fingers then touching the circuits boards as he played with them. Strange noises not intended came out of tiny speakers to create wonderful new soundscapes. You see, his wet fingers would bridge the circuits to create new paths for the power to run through, thus altering the behaviour of whatever device he chose to modify in this way. This was years ago, long before I heard about others doing similar …

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