Cassette Tape Sequencer Gijs Gieskes, 2005 Gijs Gieskes is a Dutch artist and instrumentbuilder. In addition to building a range of circuitbent instruments, Gijs has also designed and built an analogue sequencer to control their playback. Fusing these two ideas, Gijs created a cassette player with a controllable step-sequencer. The Walkman’s tape-playback speed is controlled by voltage from the sequencer via a Nintendo Gameboy; as the sequencer steps along it allows a performer to manipulate the playback speed of the tape. Hacking Nintendos Paul B Davis, 2005 Taken from ‘Big Hand at the Dice Game’, shown at the Horse Hospital, London Many devices are actually computers or are controlled by computers, and the programs that computers run can in almost all cases be modified or replaced. This is what is called ‘software hacking’. A good example of software hacking is what Paul B Davis has done with Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges for the past six years: replacing their factory-soldered ROMs with ROMs containing his own code to be executed by the NES console hardware.