Monday 12 May 2008

So today I 'won' my first keyboard on eBay...

and it felt good.

I'm hoping for delivery on Wednesday - by then I should have bought my first lot of components and will have hopefully read some more about the whole circuit bending process.

Let me describe myself as concisely and as relevantly as possible. I'm a 25-year-old inhabitant of Leeds who's never had a real hobby outside of the ever-loosely defined pastime of 'music'. I don't remember the first time I heard about circuit bending but I've probably been aware of it for a good few years at least. I'm primarily into music that involves guitars but my record collection contains (amongst other things) a fair amount of electronically-driven stuff. Most of it, regardless of genre, is designed to be played at high volume.

So that's where this blog comes in - as a document of my forays into this new hobby of mine. I'll probably break at least tens of pounds of electronic equipment and gain a few new scars from soldering iron burns. But it'll all be documented on here along with (hopefully) some samples of what a novice like me can do with a mostly-forgotten GSCE-level grasp of electronics, a genuine interest in music and some tools stolen from his brother.

More news to follow....

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