circuit bending
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The creative short-circuiting of electronic devices such as children's toys and small digital synthesizers in order to create new musical or visual instruments.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "There is some circuit-bending done with devices that generate video, but not much as the price of such devices is generally too high to make circuit-bending’s random (and often destructive) results worthwhile."
- "Some music, such as electronic dance music, is completely produced electronically and new practices have developed such as live coding, circuit bending, and chipmusic."