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Jeg er netop stødt på supernørdede Brian Duffy og hans Modified Toy Orchestra:
http://music.guardian.co.uk/electronic/ ... 79,00.html
Fascinerende artikel! Minder mig lidt om Oshii Mamoru & Shirow Masamunes "ghost in the shell/machine"-teorier...

Følgende citater er fra pladeselskabet warm circuit samt MTO's myspace-side:

Brian Duffy, award winning sound artist and creator of the Modified Toy Orchestra, has been at the forefront of a world wide underground movement called circuit bending which involves rescuing childrens electronic toys from car boot sales, and converting them into new strange and wonderfully sophisticated musical instruments. Taking them apart, he finds new connections hidden within each toys circuits that reveal new sounds, exposing the surplus value of redundant technology. The toys are then reassembled including switches and dials with which to control this surplus value. The results of this process can be shockingly beautiful, funny and extreme and have led to Brian being labelled a genius, a madman, and a national treasure.

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Its rare to hear an electronic album that has no midi, no sampling, no synthesisers, no laptops, in fact no conventional instruments of any kind, yet Toygopop by the Modified Toy Orchestra is just that.
Toygopop has been five years in the making - two years building the toy instruments and learning how to play them, and three years discovering and collaging combinations of sounds and musical phrases (Brian calls this process collaborating with the third mind of the machine ) to create a strange yet accessible album that is unlike anything else you are ever likely to hear - sometimes funny, sometimes moving, sometimes dark and disturbing.

Man kan lytte til MTO her:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fu ... =110739716
hvor der også er videoer og lign. med orkestret. Jeg kan især anbefale nummeret "this is the monkey" - komplet med abelyde og hele svineriet! Fedt nummer! Minder mig besynderligt meget om de mareridt jeg havde som barn, hvor tøjdyrene blev levende og ville mig til livs!
Derudover kan man på lastfm lytte til en hel live-koncert med MTO.

Albummet kan, tilsyneladende, kun købes på warm circuits hjemmeside:
http://www.warmcircuit.com/web/artist.php?artist_id=1

Duffy er også aktiv i zx spectrum orchestra:
http://www.myspace.com/zxspectrumorchestra
Især de to youtube-videoer fra en live-koncert kan anbefales - komplet med Duffy "geeking out" (til sidst i begge videoer) & spectrumgrafik i baggrunden!

ZX Spectrum Orchestra have been locked away in the lab writing code. They use no midi, no samplers, in fact, no instruments other than Sinclair hardware and peripheral devices. For instance, vocals on tracks are supplied by the Currah µSpeech. An early speech synthesizer built for the ZX Spectrum, it explores the found poetry of basic keyboard commands.

Deres album Basic Programming kan også rekvireres via warm circuit:
http://www.warmcircuit.com/web/release. ... ease_id=12

Nørderne længe leve!