Noise Night in the Pheonix

Circuit benders are people who customize electronics (frequently toys) to make them sound bad. In Somerville, their labors can now be made public at Noise Night, a bi-monthly get-together hosted by the local hacker organization Willoughby and Baltic. When I arrived at W&B's Davis Square space, host Jimmie Rodgers handed me a Talk 'N Learn Alphabet toy, one of those plastic slabs that will speak letters at you if you press the corresponding vowel or consonant. I pressed "N" — for Noise Night — and the thing screamed at me...
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While I can't say that I agree that we make toys sound "bad", I do understand the sentiment. I want to Thank Bill T Miller for coming out with some of his wonderful toys, and Fred Owsley for bringing his awesome gear (first time I've ever seen a tenori-on in person).

Once again I'm also going to thank the Willoughby and Baltic for hosting our noisy event. The larger community space should be open for next week's Noise Night, and we can allow for more people. At that time I'll also start scheduling performances. So if you are a performer and you want a 15 minute slot, then shoot me an email (jimmie at noise night dot com).

I'm going to get the videos up in short order. All of which will be posted in the Youtube group. I'll also make sure to update here when they are up as well. Remember that both the Youtube and the Flickr groups are open to the public, so please post to them if you have videos or pictures.