The BENT 2006 Festival is produced in partnership with Harvestworks' Benders and Coders Series and presented in part by Periscope Entertainment. Periscope Entertainment is a Los Angeles based film and television company that prides itself on supporting independent thought and innovative creation.

BENT 2006 is presented at 15 Nassau, a venue of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Space donated by Silverstein Properties.

"Circuit-bending is the creative short-circuiting of low voltage, battery-powered electronic audio devices such as guitar effects, children's toys and small synthesizers to create new musical instruments and sound generators. "

-Wikipedia

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Thanks to everyone for coming out to the bent festival this year. we had a really great time and we hope you did too. if you have any footage of the festival, please follow the links below to add them. Also let us know how you felt about the festival this year.

BENT2006 FLICKR PAGE IS HERE (please add your photos by uploading to flickr and tagging them bent2006!)

BENT FESTIVAL VIDEOS ARE HERE (please please add your videos!)

audio, t-shirts, and posters are coming soon.

Overview

Each year, The Tank invites benders from across the country and around the globe to perform concerts with their circuit bent instruments, to teach workshops to adults and children alike, and to generally descend on our fair city for a week of sharing and showing off their skills.

If you have the least bit of curiosity about electronics or electronic music, or if you've ever just really wanted to rip your toys apart, this festival is for you. Each day we will have open studios with expert benders on hand to help you get started. There will be installation artists building circuit-bent artwork throughout the space. There will be a full schedule of in-depth workshops. There will be nightly concerts of some of the best circuit benders in the world. It is genuinely fun for the whole family. You will have a blast.

Don't have any idea what we're talking about? Take a look at some of these circuit bending sites:

www.anti-theory.com

http://www.oddmusic.com/illogic/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending