At 11:33 PM -0600 11/21/03, Bohus Blahut wrote:
> Hiya Russ! You missed a good party over at Sean's BTW

Yeah, I know. I made up for it by being at Oktoberfest. :-p

> "Circuit Bending" is this sort of underground music thing where
> basically you short out kids musical toys to create new and weird
> sounds. Favorite targets are Speak & Spell's and Casio SK-1
> samplers.

Ah, okay. I've actually seen "circuit bent" Speak N Spells up for
auction on eBay. I thought that's what the guy was getting at, but
was not sure.

> So the question is whether you can go into a 2600 and add in a few
> switches and resistors to randomize the audio output.

Hmm... I don't have a good answer for that, but it's putting out an
audio system for TV, so if you can bend said audio by adding filters
and what not, the answer is probably yes. Otherwise, hmm, dunno...
I'm not sure how the 2600 produces its sounds in the first place.

Paul, where are you? :-)
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