Do you have gear, that is failing in ways that you like? I saw a video with Alessandro Cortini, where he demonstrates a faulty noise generator on his Buchla, and it sounds wonderful. Thought it could be fun to hear, if you have similar gear.
Myself, I love the crackling of the cutoff knob on my Moog Grandmother, and would never have it fixed. I think it fits both my and its aesthetic like a glove.
Didn’t Pole get his name from a busted old Waldorf 4-Pole filter and incorporate a lot of the glitches and clicks from it into his music? (I think I’m remembering that story correctly)
All my gear works perfectly.
But people do often ask me if some of it is broken after hearing me play it.
I bought a used Rev 2 a few years back and the oscillators often had a strange tinny, metallic quality to them in certain patches. As I was new to the synth it took a while to realize that it was not the way things should be. Updating firmware and calibration fixed the issue, but I do wish I could still reproduce the sound in some contexts…alas, I can’t.
Mostly it was awful though, so yea…
It’s the origin of fuzz no? 
…my sonic shit / songs always have some mal- and dys-functional leftism vibe embedded by nature…anyways.
and the right use and abuse of my gear is part of my workflow…no way around it.
but nope…same here as fin25…all worx properly, remains dusty…
i’m the ghostcrackle in all my machines myself…
The origins of the Minimoog’s grit are up there with the top happy accidents.
My brain is a pretty messed up piece of gear… so there’s that 
Yep, that’s how it came about.
Not so much failing gear, but unexpected malfunction was that time when my collaborator rendered a demo version of one of our tracks out of Ableton but still had overbridge piping in sound from the Analog 4 in realtime. Ended up with a glitchy mess of a track… so I just jammed some keys over the top of that recording and we called it a day…
Stefan Betke is a very cool dude too.
My DB-01 sounded amazing when I first got it, sequences were wacky and wonderful. I conducted a routine recalibration, played back my patterns and they sounded completely rubbish. Turns out the tuning was out of whack. Thankfully sampled some of some patterns before the recalibration.
Yep he did. So it at least says…
I have this sort of drone synth kit I built and put an adjustable power control so you can turn the voltage down to just before it dies.
Got some pretty nice fart 
sounds but that was about it.
my motu interface will randomly start spitting out rhythmic clicks and pops sometimes, i always wanted to record them to do some type of pole tracks
I’ve had tons of gear like that over the years.
I had a mixer with shorts in it that just made horrid feedback but you could play it like an oscillator bank, sounded cool.
I’ve had many tape machines and turntables with bad motors/ pitch control that made lovely warble.
Lots of amps fucked up in just the right ways though those usually took a delicate touch to be used effectively.
My all time favorite was probably an old lowery tube organ that I found next to a dumpster and dragged home about 20 years ago. It was a beautiful chaos machine. You could get the most incredible sounds out of that thing. My roommates threw it away when I was out of town but fortunately I have a few hours of recordings. I wish I still had that. If I ever see another of the same model I’d buy it in a heartbeat and try to mod it to simulate the horrid glory of my old one.
The pioneers of this might be Bebe and Louis Barron, who did the sound track to Forbidden Planet. They learned strange unconventional ways to use electrical components, often pushing those components to failure and recording the strange sounds made when those circuits failed.
Pink Floyd, did a lot of that sort of thing too, like running the sound of an acoustic piano through a Lesley speaker, or creating strange noises with amped guitars. David Gilmour plugged a Wah-wah pedal in backwards by mistake, and when he couldn’t hear anything cranked that up. That is the sound they used on Echoes on their Meddle album. I think they did this on stage too.
Reading and observing anything about circuit bending is a place to develop this skill too.
I had a Tr606 that had a sort of oscillation on one of the drum sounds due to leaky batteries, sounded good to my ears, the guy on eBay I sold it to pointed it out to me I thought it was normal
4 minutes in.
‘solo’ by Mark Hollis.
on an old broken organ
Beautiful.
Faulty tube on one of their amps creating the gorgeous muffled ambience.
Thurston piano solo.
Mike Watt on the hunt phone message.
Wonderful.
One of their best.