circuit bending
n.— «While, in an attempt to confront reality, current “fuzzy logic” technologies confront chaos, the reverse-image clear illogic technology of circuit-bending, in looking at the other side of that same reality, implements chaos. Perhaps the much-lamented lack of human spirit within computers could be addressed through circuit-bending’s personalized electronic systems of organic eccentricity, a very human trait.» —by Qubais Reed Ghazala Gravikords, Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments Jan. 29, 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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