Tracks using only circuit bent instruments:

Tracks “composed” by circuit bent instruments i.e. musical arrangements created around a single circuit bent track. The musical idea originated from the device, but the device is a result of me deliberately disrupting its normal functioning by the act of circuit bending. Odd phrases or patterns result as a result of my efforts, but are nothing I would ever likely come up with directly:

Musique concrète (ProTools, not tape splicing :):

In the late 70s and early 80s, when I was an impoverished twenty-something, I used to “multitrack” by recording to cassette, then play along with that recording onto a second cassette and so on, building up tracks (and tape hiss). Some of my efforts could be classified as musique concrète, such as recording tiny snippets of sound by quickly pausing and unpausing the record deck, often using recordings of jam sessions and conversations from that time in my life. Below are some examples of these early experimentations:

In 1992/93, I composed music for “Super Illusion”, a joint Russian-American production with magician Greg Wilson and the Bolshoi Circus of Moscow for an 11 city, 3 month tour of Japan:

Compositions 1991-1996: