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.
This track was recorded at a live, outdoor performance as part of the SITE Festival in Bushwick in March 2010. Torino is manipulating Margolis’s vocal chords using neuromuscular stimulation – hacking into the human body and overriding its naturally occurring signals to modulate voice, while the Loud Objects (also performing at Bent Fest 2010) are soldering custom audio circuits and Jennifer Walshe accompanies with extended vocals.
Torino:Margolis is new to sound making, as they have been working together since 2001 doing performance art using electric body manipulation in sculptural and movement based work.
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