Peter Edwards is an artists and master circuit bender and has been involved in “creative electronics” for almost ten years. He’s created custom works for all sorts of people, including Mike Patton, Danny Elfman, Mark Hosler of Negativland and Rahzel.

Peter currently lives in Troy, New York where he operates Casper Electronics and co curates the creative electronics performance space called “Casper Land” with his fiance. He circuit bends toys, synths, and just about everything else, including a monster DIY modular synthesizer complete with sequencers.

He’s taken things a step further, and he performed a circuit bend on a Nintendo console (NES), and hooked his modular synth up to it to sequence and change the display coming out of its video output.

This is is just so cool – it pushes all the right buttons (pun intended) for me. Simply geektacular.

Peter says:

It is a very simple bend and is a lot of fun to play with. To bend this unit I simply added a patch bay to a handful of points on the video processing chips. The Display can be tweaked by either connecting points together or by feeding in external signals, like audio or voltages from my modular synthesizer. the video shown above is an example of how the visuals can be controlled using clock signals from my modular synth.

Here’s a video of the contraption in action:

• The Nintendo Guitar
• SynthGlove: Nintendo Powerglove controller
• Incredible steampunk analogue modular sequencer
• Mind-blowing vintage synth display