Circuit Bending, put simply, is the art of modifying the circuit board of an electronic device by finding "Glitch" spots and wiring a series of knobs (Potentiometers, or "Pots" as the community calls them), resistors, capacitors, buttons, switches, LEDs, etc. to it to essentially create your own synthesizers and instruments. This is most commonly done with discarded toys such as Furbys and keyboards, cassette players, nature sound machines, and just about anything.
Circuit Bending requires no knowledge to get started and you'll learn about circuitry as you go along.
**IT IS SAFE FOR EVERYONE, AS LONG AS YOU DO NOT WORK ON ANYTHING THAT PLUGS INTO A WALL OUTLET**
This art form was discovered and coined by Reed Ghazala in 1966 when he accidentally left a toy amplifier in his metal desk, and the shorted sound was relative to that of synthesizers and other electronic sounds that were paving the way that'd change music forever.
I discovered this in 2019 via LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKSr8CE7600
JACKPUNK (as seen in the video) was my first dive into building circuits into Masks.
It's the first member of my "Ghoul School", a series of masks with different effects and functions, giving them their own personalities, essentially.
Each Ghoul is just one body part of a massive interchangeable skin-swapping, screaming analog synthesizer.
Each effect, sound, and Ghoul wearable on stage, using myself as their vessel for the spotlight.
