Tablebeast
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Tablebeast is an alias for Jesse Mesa-Savage, an American artist, record producer, and designer. The term Tablebeast is a synonym for Mesa-Savage, with Table=Mesa and the Beast=Savage. Tablebeast works in many different mediums including audio, video, pen & ink, sculpture and electronics. He is best known for building electronic synthesizers that are modified according to the anti-theory principles of circuit bending. Tablebeast started selling his modified electronic works online in 2001. His early work was based on the circuit-bent designs of electronic artists such as Reed Ghazala and Dave Wright of Not Breathing. Later he would develop his own style of circuit bending which incorporated patchbays for bends instead of arrays of switches. This modular form of circuit-bending using patchbays is commonplace in circuit-bending today. This type of patchbay design is known as a Tablebeast modification. Tablebeast's most famous works to date are his patchbay modified Casio SK-1 samplers. He has sold his modified synthesizers to musicians such as Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Jesse Lacey of Brand New, Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo and Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse. Tablebeast is also a record producer and mastering engineer. He has produced and mastered albums by The Circuit-Bent Project, Elara Luna, Tractor Brassfield and Lecivius. Currently he has retired from circuit bending to pursue new synthesizer and effects designs based on tube technology. Finished devices based on these new designs are supposed to surface some time in 2007.
