Modified Toy Orchestra
In session for Marc with their bits and bobs, it's the Modified Toy Orchestra.
In session tonight with their bits and bobs it's the Modified Toy Orchestra. Five years after the release of the debut album Toygopop, the band release Plastic Planet Feb 11 2011.
MTO explore the hidden potential and surplus value latent inside redundant technology; a process creating sophisticated new electronic instruments from abandoned children's toys. They 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, they find new connections hidden within each toys circuit that reveal new sounds, thus 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.
Brian Duffy on Toys, Darren Joyce on Toys, Laurence Hunt on Toys, Sean Tighe on Toys and finally Greme Rose on toys - phew.
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Music Played
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Modified Toy Orchestra
Qwerty
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The Jesus and Mary Chain
Never Understand
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The Vaccines
If U Wanna
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Final Form - Everything Everything
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Jessica Lea Mayfield
Our Hearts Are Wrong
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UK Subs
All I Wanna Know
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Kim Fowley
Bubble Gum
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Jane鈥檚 Addiction
Been Caught Steeling
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Young Knives
Love My Name
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Ria Bartok
Tu La Revois
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Modified Toy Orchestra
Funfair For The Common Man
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Joni Mitchell
California
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Screaming Lord Sutch
Jack the Ripper
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Laura Martin
Spy
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Wild Beasts - Albatross
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Modified Toy Orchestra
Great Kings Fall
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Lia Ices
Little Marriage
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Eric Bogosian
Fat Fighters
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Fisk Jubilee Singers
Blow Gabriel Blow
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Stereolab
Wow And Flutter
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Metronomy
The Look
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Bo Ningen
Korashitai Kamochi
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Electric Eel Shock
Japanese Meets Chinese in USA
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The Smiths
Vicar In A Tutu
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Pixies - Wave of Mutilation
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Benjamin Francis Leftwich
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Broadcast
- Mon 7 Mar 2011 19:00大象传媒 Radio 6 Music