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!Deprogramming and Bugging Code: the Semi-Science of Circuit Bending
Circuit-bending is best described in the words of pioneering bender Reed
Ghazala: "an electronic art which implements creative audio
short-circuiting". While programmers and engineers labor to create stable,
predictable sound devices, benders deliberately undo their work in search
of the hidden, the random, and the unorthodox. In the process, they
transform the cheap, ordinary, and disposable into the unique; the act of
creating the  bent instrument is often as important as the sounds and
works ultimately  produced. This presentation will give an overview of the
how and why of bending, a demonstration of a few bent instruments, and
(time permitting) a short performance.

!Bio
Khate has been making electronic music since 1994, when she cobbled
together two semi-functional home stereos with some poorly-spliced cables
and took advantage of their mechanical quirks to make tape collages.
Ten years later, she still has a fondness for toy, vintage, and otherwise
unconventional electronic instruments. Khate combines this menagerie of
hardware with loops and organic found sounds to create textured, rhythmic
soundscapes that nod at industrial, ambient, and musique concrete
influences.

Khate received an MA in Creative Arts Therapy from Hofstra University in
1995. In addition to performing regionally, she conducts workshops on
circuit-bending, and participates in the 804Noise Festival annually.

http://www.khate.org
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