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Burnkit 2600 create jazzy drum n' bass grooves and experimental nowave using a variety of homemade circuit-bent devices, old video game hardware and other gadgets. For Bent2005, we have teamed up with digital animation artist taomonkey and video artist nina’s hair to create a multimedia experience that will include video feedback, computer and clay animation, real-time video manipulation and other trickery. It can’t be described in words, but think: 3rd grade art class has tea party with killer robots from space, hilarity ensues.
Rampart was formed in Ypsilanti, Michigan spring of 2002 by Derek Stanton, Timothy Stecker and Paul Monti. One day Derek, trying to impress a girl who was really into renniecance festivals and tolkien, let the smooth mack just spill out of his mouth " oh yeah i have a medieval band. we're called Rampart ". It was a lye soon to become a truth ... It was too good not to do ..... Do Rampart. Derek Stanton is joined by Flint Michigan percussionist Allison Busch of the band Awesome Color for bent 2005.
Travis McCoy Fuller is a visual, sonic and performance artists practicing in and around the Boston area. His work often explores ideas that draw awareness to cultural and societal issues, expressed through emotion, sound and action. He is an avid circuit bender and builds his own electronic instruments. He is one of the founders, curators and organizers of TEST, a bi-monthly performance art event held in Boston. He has performed at such venues as (including but not limited to), The Mills Gallery (Boston), The Piano Factory (Boston), GASP! Gallery (Boston), A Square Space (Boston), and many basements and bars from New Hampshire to Virginia. He will also be presenting his work in Quebec City at Le Lieu Gallery in April 2005.
Receptors - my 'Controller Array set' will feature gameboys, ataris, circuit-bends & a live gameboy camera feed..& my new vinyl will be available for purchase...
Jeff Donaldson has been creating abstract images with game consoles since playing video games as a kid in the '80's. It wasn't until the winter of 2000/2001 that he decided to document them on VHS which led to the development of hardware modifications designed to control and manipulate system "crashes" in real time. His work has been featured at Machinista 2004 Glasgow for their 8 bit cabaret night, the Tank providing visuals for gameboy music via internet, once.twice festival baltimore, md. and various local baltimore electronic musicians. Jeff currently lives in Maryland where he has been working on a definitive compilation DVD of his early work with modified NES graphics and continues to compose and record music on everything from gameboy to sitar to classical guitar.
FoodTeam is Ryan Olcott hailing from Minneapolis, MN. Probably better known for fronting ex-prog group 12rods (V2 records) or producing electro in Future Wives (Mogul Electro). FoodTeam is a new direction in composition for Ryan in which he utilizes two identical self-bent keyboards to create beats and bass lines that make Autechre look like Mick Fleetwood.
Lorin Edwin Parker is a Los Angeles based performance artist specializing in music, technology and drama. Parker plays electronic instruments of his own design including singing robots, bubbling water jars, a unique theremin, and a multitude of hacked electronics, video cameras and synthesizers. Parker often becomes a character on stage. In recent works he has performed as a priest officiating a funeral for robots, and a spirit stealing memories from the minds of the sleeping. His recent work deals with the intersection of science and mysticism, conjuring though his inventions, the voices of disembodied beings and strange forces.
Derek Sajbel (Zef Renirhs band leader) received a B.A. in cinema-television with a minor in Japanese studies from the University of Southern California in 2002. Derek frequents the alias Dr. Rek ShyBell. He has been producing albums, videos, art and absurdity since 1994. He currently resides in Silver Lake in Los Angeles. Derek has been performing at local Los Angeles underground art and experimental musical events, such as [eraser], Hanger1018.com, CannibalFlower.com and Infinite Complexity (www.icomplex.org), both VJing and doing live circuit bending for over three years. He curated the Video Art program and Electronic music evening at the multimedia art event Humanitarian Superpower in spring 2003. His music and videos have been released on Phthalo Records Infinite Complexity compilations and the I.D.E.A. #7. He performed in the 2004 Center for Experiments in Art, Information, and Technology festival, and had a video installation in the 2003 CEAIT (ceait.calarts.edu). He was the first performer at the first circuit bending festival in New York April 2004 (www.thetanknyc.org/bent2004/) , and brought bending back to NYC’s Lower East Side HOWL fest at the Fusion Arts Museum in August 2004. His current project is a documentary on Circuit Bending (http://absurdity.biz/CircuitBending/Bent.htm).
Daniel James Walker creates sculptures from toy parts and discarded plastic and packaging. His interactive installation "The Battle of the Monkey Robots" is created from over a dozen modified radio controlled toys. Teams of up to seven people compete against each other by controlling the Monkey Robots in a team sport similar to soccer. Contact info: danthetoyman@hotmail.com, www.monkeyrobot.org
XDUGEF (X-du-gef) is taking the Flame War from the online forum to the stage with his piece called RAW EMALF. Using provactive quotes taken from several flames regarding the subject of circuit bending and Bent 2005 Adrian will rearrage chop and mutilate the synthesized speech using an array of bent cd players and digital delays. In addition the dialogue has been mangled using a perl script to randomly splice the audio and CD will be magic marked for even skippier action.The performance will be accompained by a hear and see video compressed with a defective Divx compressor. For more info about Adrian and XDUGEF please visit www.xdugef.com