Complete Artist Listing for Particpants of the BENT2004 Circuit Bending Festival

Peter B
Peter played tuba in high school.
http://rainbowrandom.net/

Arius Blaze / Conversations with the Future Dead
http://www.audible-ism.com

Burnkit 2600 create exotic, sub-aquatic soundscapes, quirky modified jazz and chunky distorted grooves for people with an adventurous ear.   Through experimentation with circuit-bending and other modifying techniques, the band breathes new life into dead circuits, liberating the musical creativity locked within them.
http://www.burnkit2600.com

Matt Bua
Exercising lawless-nest's of multiplicity overlapped with automated animaltalk technologies and crammed into suitcase's ready for the big run out of here. No, you go.

Can't is Jessica Rylan, singing, dancing, and playing noise on homebuilt synthesizers and amplifiers. The performances are brief, very physical, and feature a high density of information. She has performed with Le Tigre, Lightning Bolt, and Thurston Moore, and has releases on RRR, IRFP, and Breaking World Records.
http://irfp.net

Church of Craft - The Church of Craft aims to create an environment where any and all acts of making have value to our humanness. When we find moments of creation in our everyday activities, we also find simple satisfaction. The power of creating gives us the confidence to live our lives with all the love we can. By promoting creativity, we offer access to a non-denominational spiritual practice that is self-determined and proactive. The Church of Craft maintains no dogma or doctrine beyond what every member believes for themselves .
http://www.churchofcraft.org

Nicolas Collins has been hacking circuitry and programming computers for live performance since the mid-1970s. He is currently Chair of the Department of Sound at The School of Art Institute of Chicago, where students get college credit for ripping apart radios.

Dr. Rek ShyBell has been producing albums, videos, art and absurdity since 1994. He has been bending since 1996. He currently resides in Echo Park in Los Angeles.
http://absurdity.biz

Peter Edwards -
http://www.casperelectronics.com

Travis Fuller is a visual, sonic and performance artist currently living and showing in the greater Boston area. He primarily incorporates drawing, sound and puppetry into his performances. His work explores ideas that draw awareness to cultural and societal issues expressed through emotion, sound, and action. He focuses on the subjectivity of every experience, letting the viewer experience his work through the filter of his personal language. He has been circuit bending for a year now and builds his own electronic instruments. He has performed at the Mills Gallery(Boston), Mobius (Boston), the Museum School (Boston),Mass Art (Boston), the Hoss (Boston), The Piano Factory (Boston), Andrews Square Studio in the TEST performance art festival (Boston), The Thirsty Ear(Cambridge), the Zeitgeist Gallery (Cambridge),Theater in the Open (Newburyport), The Firehouse(Newburyport), the Candle Factory (Providence, RI),and the Safari Lounge (Providence, RI).

REED GHAZALA is known internationally as "The Father of Circuit-Bending". Reed's sculptural experimental instruments have been built for Tom Waits, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson's Pat Mastalotto, Blur and many other musicians. Reed's work has been covered and requested throughout the arts "underground" and the major media as well, including ABC Television, The Discovery Channel, MTV, Disney, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The L. A. Weekly, The Chicago Tribune, The Music, Wired Magazine, Option, Billboard, Time Out, Stereophile, The Smithsonian, The ReR Quarterly, Sound on Sound, Computers & Music, and many others. Along with many private acquisitions, Reed's work has found its way into the NYC Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim and the Whitney permanent collections as well as numerous other public galleries worldwide.
http://www.anti-theory.com/

Joshua Hydeman

Ant Macabre
For the past 8 years, Ant's music has made people laugh, cry, bleed and....think. He is also a designer, educator, and performer of the circuit-bending medium, with performances and works shown throughout the west coast.

Mason Jar - After leaving an indelible mark on the crowds of North Carolina, MJ packed his bags and brought his noise to providence, RI. He spends his time terrorizing school-children and building his empire in New England.
http://www.badmonkey.org

noisetet
Donny Silverman, circuit bent electronics, flute. Brian Sebastian, percussion. David Phelps, guitar. Utilizing self built instruments as well as instruments by Arius Blaze and Reed Ghazala, noisetet's purpose is to bring the visual electronic element to improvisational music/ free jazz.
http://www.noisetet.com

october71
Phoebe October was born from the unholy union of Mad Max, Tank Girl and Josie and the Pussycats. She has tried to live as normal a life as possible, but has failed miserably at doing so. The person you see before you is a direct result of all those long hard years growing up strange and misunderstood.
http://october71.iuma.com

ORGY OF NOISE - BILL T MILLER
Mutant anti-musician engineer producer remixer BILL T MILLER unleashes an ORGY OF NOISE via a pile of circuit bent toyz from his collection bent by some of the finest benders around. BTM has been lurking in the underground noise scene for decades as a pioneering found sound media barrage sampling overload mutator in his bands (OBE and Kings Of Feedback) ...as well as performance art parody fun as a SubGenius Doktor -the King Of Slack and   remixing and recording other bands (Melt-Banana, Disrupt, Grief, Roger Miller, Saturnalia and much more.)
http://circuitbending.com
http://orgyofnoise.com
http://mp3orgy.com
http://billtmiller.com

psi
Jaime Fennelly (electronics), Chris Forsyth (guitar) and Fritz Welch (drums, cymbals & objects). Brooklyn, New York based electro-acoustic trio.
Cathartic, hermetic, meditative noise that slowly evolves into nothing.
http://www.antiopic.com/allegorical/september2003.html
http://www.fluxartspace.org/gallery/album85/psigroup

Vic Rawlings
Vic Rawlings is an improvising musician living in Boston.   He plays amplified prepared cello and an electronic instrument of his own design utilizing existing circuitry and a multiple speaker array.   He has recordings on Grob, Sedimental, RRRecords, Chloe, BOXmedia, Emanem, an upcoming release on Locust, and has performed with such diverse musicians as Donald Miller, Jaap Blonk, Daniel Carter, Laurence Cook, Eddie Prevost and as a member of the BSC and undr quartet.

Douglas Repetto
Douglas Repetto is an artist and teacher whose work, including installations, performances, recordings, software, and lectures, has been presented internationally. He runs a number of arts/community-oriented groups in New York City and on the web, including   dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show,   organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website. He works at the Columbia University   Computer Music Center and lives in New York City with his wife, writer Amy Charlotte Benson; two cute/bad cats, Pokey and Sneezy; and many plants.
http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas

Shalom
www.shalom-art.com

Topanga Elementary School Enrichment S.T.A.R Program

Voltage

Virgin Mega Whore - virgin mega whore is part noise, fashion, art & video.

Mike Walters Mike Walters lives in Carrboro, North Carolina and designs, modifies, collects, and repairs electronic instruments. He plays synthesizer and organ in the band Jett Rink.
http://www.mysterycircuits.com