commisioned by a musician/sound designer running an award winning film and tv studio in los angeles. this is spunkytoofer’s flagship circuit bent yamaha tg33 model. it has every possible circuit bend available for the AWM2 waveforms via the 12 knobs on top. these twelve knobs are based on spunkytoofers color wheel patching system. there are more estoeric bends that go beyond waveform bending into total chance including FM circuit bending. these type of bends are available near the vector control joystick via rotary switches. there are several manufacture production runs from yamaha of the tg33 which make the esoteric bends inaccesible by more straight forward circuit bending. i’ve developed a circuit which gets the same result on all production models for consistent results in the fm/esoteric circuit bends. running in conjunction with these bends is a freeze selector which sustains the current sound (provided it has a sustainable envelope) in addition the crystal oscillator has been replaced with an ultra stable ltc1799 oscillator for precision analog control over pitch and sample rate. the oscillator has been tuned specifically in maximum range for stable performance.. it has been tuned also to be able to glitch in the lowest extremes. in the lower sample rate ranges aleatoric responses and chaotic glitches occur.

this tg33 had a complete capacitor replacement and filter caps have been modified for a little more high end frequency content to pass through the outputs.

for previous models and demonstrations with videos and sounds click here

the flagship model can be commisioned by request. contact info can be found under the about link section or instruments link section of this website

full interview here

2:00 minutes in below

short exerpt culled from an older audio technology magazine from australia:

“there was hardly any guitar on the first album, it was all drums, piano, and circuit bent keyboard, midi strings and a lot of the sound came from Florence singing through an AKG D19 mic through this here…….”

dm2- rabbithole vortex codesigned by jason soliday.

http://www.jsoliday.com

a hidden aspect is a touch interface from the switches which are intiated/anchored by various contacts and parts such as the led bezels and acorn nuts. with the touch interface you can either control by touch one pedal or cross modulate one from the other. completed today. documentation to follow and upload to to this post.

for diy information on how to add touch sensitivity to your projects refer to the previous post or at the original publish for getlofi.com

Fortune Cookies: Series of chaotic speech synths based on the Vtech Talking Whiz Kid circuit. Each one in the series is unique and an exploration into different interfaces. The Whiz Kid when circuit bent is what I consider bends under the category of glitch stream. A device is bent into streaming a series of endless/random flow of glitches and further bends will determine the course of it’s flow or interruption of flow.

In this particular version I’m using touch sensitivity to interact with the glitch streams. It’s a pretty simple concept you can apply to any touch based project so long as your components are metal to the touch and electrically isolated from the enclosure you’re using. This works for switches but this can also work very well for momentary buttons. If you find the right connections you can add an expressive touch sensitivity to your trigger and switches.

Strip a good amount of stranded wire and wrap the wire around the component’s base on the underside of the non conductive enclosure, then tighten the component down. If components have hardware such as washers it’s pretty easy just to thread the wire in between the washer and component (given it is thin yet sturdy enough) and then just tighten the component down to the enclosure making sure the wire is making contact with the metal casing of your component. Use a multimeter or other means to check the continuity of your your wire to the touchable part of your component.

post will be updated with more info. for previous details on past nanosynth designs click here. this was more of a personal project but am still open for commisions based on this design. if you are interested in commisioning just drop me an email.

current rendering of yamaha vss30 below

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—————————–circuit bent yamaha s30 and dm1 with dm2 almost done———————–

features:

-36 point freely assignable patchbay via color wheel

-6 rotary knobs with 12 positions assigned to each

-6 color wheel knobs patches a rotary knob to one of three colors: RGB or off

-color wheels allow free matrixing of all knobs in up to 3 independant pairs of circuit bends or up to 6 stack of bends

-every point to bend has been addressed and available in the most complex interface while retaining ease of use and intuitiveness.

-binding posts suspend a contoured painted blue metallic duraplex interface for all modifications

-durable low profile components with no parts that will snap

-new memory battery installed

-contacts cleaned

circuit bent roland jv-1010 demo by spunkytoofers

this was a personal project but am open for commisions. please contact for more information.

julius using his arsenal with antithesizer
and nebbie on the rabbit hole delay

Dan Blacksberg -Trombone
Julius Masri -Electronic arsenal
Eric Carbonara -Recording and Mixing

nebulagirl: all sounds

A Blister Weeps in Your Sock by Nebulagirl

igno the mage took the pic at glitch festival. a bill miller did the live visuals with me. glitch bots got it together. jason soliday at enemy. i had to scoot but it was a tripped out blast. this poor rabbit’s adrenal glands are just starting to ease up. i sleep and crash while the bots do this for another 2 weeks.

enemysound
1550 North Milwaukee Ave.
3rd floor. Chicago, IL 60622
nov. 5th. 8pm. free admission

(see gli.tc/h for full schedule)

more on circuit bent e-mu command station