Project Precis

I want to use my final project as an opportunity to circuit bend. I see a relationship between this and the issue of access to unlimited information through media in the twenty first century. Circuit bending is all about experimentation and creating something new, and that kind of original creation and learning has become less popular with the internet and television telling everyone only what they want to know in the most concise way. With media, learning is possible without any need for figuring things out. I will also consider (but am not limited to) issues of technology in music, distortion and motivations behind abstraction, and the causes and effects of increasingly complex childrens’ toys. To do this I will experiment with circuit bending through several different toys, and will record music illustrating the toys’ sounds before and after circuit bending. I want my project to be about hands on exploration, but I will be keeping a regular journal about my experiences and how they relate to twenty first century challenges.