univac — Bent // Broken 2022: circuit bending festival, 03/26/22
Channel: univacTechDweeb
Date: 2022-04-09

Bent // Broken was an international circuit bending festival featuring over 80 circuit bending artists from all over the world smashed into a weekend of blissful audiovisual cacophony and was initially Twitch-streamed into viewers' willing earholes and eyeholes.

Spectacularly wrangled by the talented Echo Wave Unspeakable, the 13-hour festival was a fever dream of amazing circuit bent noise and visual cacophony.

The edit here features the video I submitted for Bent // Broken  in the lower left corner with a simultaneously-shot overhead camera angle squeezed in for additional context. Also, this version features more than 3 whole minutes of additional visual noise as the submitted video was 15 minutes  in length. Those additional minutes are the ones you should really watch.

Gadgets used: TinyFlaccid TubbyBox: Dipsy (Microsoft/Actimates interactive Teletubby), Oscillamotor (bent motor controller with printer motor), BentDrive (2.5" hard drive), Yamaha RX-21, uniPet (Panasonic Panapet AM radio), MetroSette (bent cassette player), Electric Irrelevance (Realistic Electronic Reverb), and BeatBender: Dreck (Shrek version of a Beat Blender). TubbyBox and Oscillamotor are also being CV controlled via modular synth.

Visuals provided by HappyBoy (bent Archer Video Enhancer) being optically controlled by a LED light organ hooked into the live audio feed. The 5 tiny analog video cameras are being switched by a Spec Technologies security camera auto-switcher.

Enjoy!

The madman Echo Lightwave Unspeakable put together a playlist of all the artists, in order, with title card videos so you too can sit and enjoy over 13 hours of incredible audiovisual insanity. You will have to watch the whole thing in one sitting though.

Hang your screens and speakers out the window so your neighbors can enjoy as well. Make sure to turn it up:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLplVFNPcAXZBXbTUdSq48mDTNmqt98Ay-

My individual original video is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXGDt4zLQg&list=PLplVFNPcAXZBXbTUdSq48mDTNmqt98Ay-&index=139