Resources & case studies
Findings from the bench, written up. Parameters included so the claims can be checked.
Case studies
| 01 | The Performed Bend A 23-second continuous take of capacitance played as an instrument — 19 moves, open → 2n2 → open — plus burst-locked color decodes of what each setting does to a figure. |
| 02 | The Witness Gap One night on the bench: a bend the digital instruments graded as wreckage — 60% of lines off-pitch, zero fields of color lock — displayed near-clean on a CRT. Two witnesses, both right. |
| 03 | The Bend Catalog: Mapping an Instrument's Glitch Vocabulary An overnight session driving sixteen control channels one at a time — photographed off the CRT, swept, combined, and fingerprinted from the waveform. The result is a classified vocabulary: which channels wash, which smear, which behave like knobs and which like switches. |
| 04 | One Setpoint, Two Glitches: Bistability at the Onset At a single control setpoint, repeated with full dark recovery between reps, the device alternated between two distinct glitch states — a red/green chroma door and a black-white dither door. A control coordinate maps to a family of glitches, not one. |
Documents
| 01 | Terms in Use The working vocabulary of this site, dictionary order — industry terms as they apply here, and the shop's own words, marked as such. A few sentences apiece, no more. |
| 02 | How an Instrument Gets Made Here The shop method, end to end: an instrument is drawn as engineering sheets, assembled by hand, measured at microsecond scale, cataloged bend by bend, and only then played. The thing being engineered is controlled ruin. |
Reference
| 01 | How a television draws a picture Analog video from the wire up: one voltage carrying brightness, color, and timing, and the electron beam that develops it into light. The foundation under everything else on this shelf. |
| 02 | Composite sync, explained The part of an analog video signal that tells a display where the picture is — why breaking it makes screens roll, and why protecting it is the whole game. |
| 03 | Papers The case studies as printable PDFs — same write-ups, typeset by the browser's print engine, for people who read on paper. |
| 04 | The Reference Shelf The one-sheet reference cards that hang at the bench — protocols, chips, and power parts, each distilled from the datasheet onto a single printable page. Free to download. |
| 05 | Characteristic Curves One frame of a portrait clip swept from clean baseline to full melt across six control-resistance drive indices. A family of curves for a bend instrument: where the picture breaks, and how little of the dial that takes. |