Modified Toy Orchestra MTO Birmingham Modified Toy Orchestra explores the hidden potential and surplus value latent inside redundant technology; a process creating sophisticated new electronic instruments from abandoned children's toys. We have been at the forefront of a worldwide underground movement called circuit bending which involves rescuing children’s electronic toys and converting them into new strange and wonderfully sophisticated musical instruments. Taking them apart, you find new connections hidden within each toys circuits that reveal new sounds, exposing the surplus value of redundant technology. Toys are reassembled, including switches and dials with which to control this surplus value. The results of this process can be shockingly beautiful, funny and also extreme. It is rare to hear an electronic live performance that has no midi, no sampling, no synthesizers, no laptops, in fact no conventional instruments of any kind. Modified Toy Orchestra’s tracks Toy Riff I.c by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 16:54:01 +0000 Xylotron by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 16:53:55 +0000 Synthesizer Youth Day by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 16:53:49 +0000 What Lies Beneath The Hiss? by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 16:53:43 +0000 Watsuri by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 16:53:37 +0000 The Who? by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 16:53:31 +0000 Reed by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 16:53:24 +0000 Radiophonic Office Party by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 16:53:17 +0000 This Is The Monkey by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 15:42:09 +0000 Ode To Joy by Modified Toy Orchestra published on 2015/06/26 15:41:55 +0000
