Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending

Let’s visit Reed Ghazala, who’s been called the father of circuit bending.Clad entirely in purple, a sort of modular J. Mascis, Ghazala shows us his boyhood home in suburban Cincinnati—where the chance-driven sound generating technique was born in the late 1960s—before giving us a tour of his Anti-Theory Workshop on the other side of town. There, he plays an array of other manipulated consumer electronics, all blipping and blorping to the rush of simply not knowing what you’re going to get when you bend a children’s toy radio.