BENT
BILL T MILLER - ORGY OF NOISE
First International Festival of Circuit Bending
April 3 -10, 2004 - The Tank - New York City
LIVE IN CONCERT
FRIDAY NIGHT - APRIL 9
BENT: The First International Festival of Circuit Bending, took place April 3 through 10, 2004 at the Tank, in New York, NY. The BENT Festival was a weeklong exploration of the art of circuit bending featuring panel discussions, demonstrations, hands on workshops, and music performances.
There were concerts on April 3, 9 and 10 and workshops and evolving gallery
installations all week. The festival included a rare appearance and a public workshop by Reed Ghazala. Reed was very generous with his time and personally guided the start of the bending of BTM's rare Casio SA-2 keyboard.
Bill T Miller's ORGY OF NOISE played on FRIDAY NIGHT - APRIL 9 ...mutating into a
LIVE TOY ORGY OVERLOAD. Along with Bill T Miller, his
toy pals Dr. E.T., DanceBot and TronBot, the humanoids PETE EDWARDS
of CasperElectronics (who played the french speak and spell he bent for BTM) and THOMAS ULIASZ of Burnkit 2600 (who played the guttar toy guitar that he bent for BTM) and BEN MILLER (who played animal farm train toy) and the audience at The Tank all joined in for the Orgy Of Noise.
ORGY OF NOISE
LIVE BENTFEST CD
Special thanx to ALL who were there to witness the spectacle of the ORGY OF NOISE set live on Friday...including Reed Ghazala, Reg Bloor, Glenn Branca, Joe Gigs, Joker Nies, Donny Silverman, Mark Sloan, Tom Stephenson, Justin Emerson, Corey Austin, Dr. Rek, Douglas Repetto, Dhina Rhodes, Mike Flach, Jon Strymish and Sheri Hausey.
BTM's CircuitBending.com BENDER PALS... Thom Uliasz (burnkit 2600 and orgy of noise) and Peter Edwards (CASPERELECTRONICS) played their own live sets at the festival. Plus, BTM's Boston friends... Jessica Rylan (can't) and Vic Rawlings (saturnalia) and Josh Hydeman (dreamhouse) and Travis Fuller (dreamhouse) also played sets during the Bentfest.
BTM was there hanging out on Saturday April 3 for the opening Bending Workshop
and even kicked off a jiffy "music" mini-orgy with a bent toy guitar, a bent toy robot
and toy megaphone to the amusement of the crowd who were there for the workshop. Great opening day of the festival.
Then back in Boston during the week (to hear friends and Orgy Of Noise
contributors, Melt-Banana play live on Tuesday in Boston)
and then bounced back to NYC on Thurday and caught Reed Ghazala's adventures and then played the ORGY OF NOISE set on FRIDAY nite April 9 along with Peter Edwards, noisetet and Audient, and then hung out on Saturday April 10 to see/hear Jessica Rylan, Phoebe October 71, Mark Sloan, Joker Nies (from Germany on bent omni chord) and all the rest of the fun.
SPECIAL THANX to ALL the STAFF at THE TANK.... curator - sound tech - host - Mike Rosenthal and curator - bent poster artist - Daniel Greenfeld and Tank manager - Justin Krebs.
