Bent 2005 Circuit Bending Festival April 27-30

This week at The Tank we are presenting the Bent 2005 Circuit Bending
Festival. Amazing musicians and artists who create new musical instruments
and art out of cheap/lofi electronic toys will be coming to The Tank from
all across the US, Mexico, and Europe. The full schedule of workshops and
concerts is listed below, and please check the website for more information
about the artists. Also check out http://www.anti-theory.com/ for a good
overview of circuit bending in general.

Bent 2005 Circuit Bending Festival
April 27-30 @ The Tank
432 W 42nd Street
Between 9th and 10th aves
All trains to timesSq/portAuth
212-563-6269
http://www.thetanknyc.org/bent2005/

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Wednesday April 27
3-5pm Open Circuit Bending Lab - FREE
Learn to circuit bend in a casual atmosphere.

6pm Workshop - FREE
Cassette-looptapes and pitch-shifting Walkmans with Gijs Gieskes:
In this workshops you will learn how to make a tape loop from an audio
Cassette, and pitch shift it with a variable resistor.

8pm Concert - $7
Joker Nies
bobby vomit
d-lan - tales from the id vol 5
David Linton
xdugef

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Thursday April 28
3-5pm Open Circuit Bending Lab - FREE

6pm Workshop - FREE
“Touch it! The Suzuki Omnichord” workshop with Joker Nies

8pm Concert - $7
Homicidal Choir (Nobody & T-Bone)
Flavour
Travis Fuller
Joshua Hydeman
FoodTeam
Lorin Edwin Parker
KING CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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Friday April 29
3-5pm Open Circuit Bending Lab - FREE

6pm Workshop - FREE
Gameboy Hacking Workshop with Gijs Gieskes. In this workshop you will get
started in the gameboy tracker application LittleSoundDJ.

8pm Concert - $7
noisetet
Vic Rawlings
Joker Nies
Jeff Donaldson
Gijs Gieskes
atari noise
nullsleep
Talibam

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Saturday April 30
12-3pm “Day at the Circuits” - FREE
Introductory circuit bending workshop for kids and adults of all ages! Do
you have an old battery-operated toy at home that makes noise? Bring it in
and transform it into a new and srtrange musical instrument. Or just bring
yourself and rip apart some of our toys!

4pm Workshop - FREE
Circuit Bending Workshop with Peter Edwards of Casper Electronics.

5pm Workshop - FREE
“Nintendo NES Hacking Workshop”with Paul B. Davis [BEIGE]

7pm Concert - $7
Ant Macabre
Receptors
Rampart
vorpal
Burnkit2600
Zef Renirhs
Lektrogirl - Rephlex/Lektrolab
Paul B. Davis - BEIGE/8-Bit Construction Set
DJ Sniff

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Also stop by anytime to check out circuit bent art installations from:

Daniel Cashin
Peter Edwards
Paul Slocum
Daniel Walker: The Battle of the Monkey Robots!


Thanks,

Mike Rosenthal
Daniel Greenfeld
Curators / Bent 2005
spaceworks @ The Tank