Electronicos Fantasticos – Surfing on CRT waves

I saw a post about Japanese band? collective? Electronicos Fantasticos who hack domestic equipment like fans and TVs to make instruments, use touch synthesizers (Bruce Haack invented that WAY back in the 1960s!) and barcode readers to make music.

Here they cover New Order’s Blue Monday at Iron Island Festival.

It’s very Kraftwerk meets Tim Hunkin meets Naim June Paik via maybe the Polysics. At Ars Electronica 2019 they took the challenge to teach some members how to play these new instruments in a few days and then put on a show. It explains better how some of their instruments work. Indeed they appropriately cover Kraftwerk’s Dentaku (the Japanese version of Pocket Calculator) in that performance.