(Glitch) Music and Video Performance

In Chicago I had the opportunity to check out an exhibition at the Jennifer Norback Gallery (a small gallery a few blocks from the MCA) that UF alumn Wesley Wilson had a piece in. There I met a few artists that were working in the mixing of digital media and experimental music.





James Connolly and Kyle Evans were amazing. Totally agonizing to listen to but fantastic at the same time.

Spencer Hutchinson, the artist who organized the exhibition in collaboration with Jennifer Norback, had some really great pieces as well including one entitled Video Performance #1 with Affected Turntable (2010).


The piece used a hardware hacked mattel mindflex toy to control the operation of a belt driven turntable. The brainwave energy picked up by the mindflex sensor was transformed to a variable electric current to control the playback of original sound pieces on an custom cut vinyl record.