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L​Ö​WENZAHN - unravel with ease

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    The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY electronics, hardware hacking, and circuit bending. Each year we invite artists from across the country and around the globe to perform music with their home-made or circuit bent instruments, teach workshops to adults and children alike, create beautiful art installations and to generally come together, face to face, and showcase the state of the art in DIY electronics and circuit bending culture.
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LÖWENZAHN is a project which explores atypical solutions to circuit bending. Instead of relying on switches and RCA cables to make bends, connections are made by banks of reed switches, which respond to magnets. Magnets are twirled above the reeds, and clusters of connections are made and unmade in seconds, faster and more gracefully than any cord could be unplugged. Hands pass over the grid of switches, and we hear apixelated representations of the gesture above them. The Casio becomes an electronically prepared piano, and magnets of different sizes, shapes and orientations influence the sound depending on their placement above the reeds. The quivering of the reed-switches is amplified, adding the delicate hum of crickets to the sonic debris. These sounds are wrapped around the human voice, as Löwenzahn croons with the tempered grace of a sleepy lounge singer. In science class, kids used to huddle around the TV screen and bend their reality with magnets when the teacher wasn't watching. We keep the computer as far away as possible, fearing the data death which could occur if a magnet gets too close.

Daniel Fishkin is a musician/soundmaker who is influenced by Goethe's Faust, and wood which is attached or unattached to the ground. Kenji Garland is a video-musician, or something, whose primary influences include HyperCard, phosphorescence, and a desire to drastically alter/enhance the way the video signal reflects and inhabits our perceived environment. This is a study of forces beyond our ordinary perception.

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from Bent Festival 2010, track released March 30, 2010

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