Bent and illustrated
by Circuit Bending pioneer Q. R. Ghazala for Oddmusic.
The emanating art flowing from the letter "O",
is his visual representation of the Oddmusic it
decides to create.
Listen to a scary sound sample of the Incantor
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Incantor
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Incantors, circuit-bent
Speak & Spells, Speak & Reads and Speak & Maths, are prime
examples of circuit-bending's power to produce alien
music engines. The anti-theory electronics at work within
these human voice synthesizers result in a stunning
instrument capable of producing literally endless abstract
sound sequences to listen to and work with. Incantor
aleatoric (chance) music streams are simply intriguing.
The twelve added features include 2 human body contacts
(for real-time pitch bending), 3 voice bending switches
(for data stream disruptions resulting in chance music
and other unexpected results), 3 looping switches (search,
hold, and electric eye for shadow-looping with a wave
of the hand), pitch/speed dial (allows for super-slow
clocking, disintegrating the voices and tones into intricate
showers of deep electronic sounds), reset switch (to
restore circuit after crashes), gold-plated RCA output
(for feeding effects, mixer and amp), speaker switch
(for muting the built-in speaker), blue power LED and
ultra-bright red envelope LED (envelope LED is hidden
inside casing, positioned to flash on player's hands
during volume peaks). Requires 4 "C" cells. Speak&Spell
version produces the most repeatable sounds, the Speak&Read
contains the largest vocabulary and the Speak&Math has
the least keypad controls, but also the sharpest voice
(though this takes knowing all three to discern, the
difference being real but not extreme). All units contain
the original blue fluorescent alpha-numeric display
and membrane keypad.
For more Circuit-Bent
instruments, visit our mini-site dedicated to Reed Ghazala,
the inventor of Circuit Bending... Transport
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