art > hardware > on air toys
Spring 1995




These are very cheap toy cell phones and others that me and Paulo Feliciano modified for the On Air mini-tour of radio broadcasts. I was inspired during my residency at STEIM in early 1995. Basically, we didn't change the electronics, only exposed the circuits and messed up their clock rate by touching a resistor with wet fingers, thus increasing and decreasing the current flow. Their low-fi strange noise was further processed with tape delay and other devices.