A 2 part post today, each about a small resurgance in the "Glitch Art" movement inspired by primitive computers and data storage devices.
Visually:
My friend Justin happened across some fantastic "glitch art" a while back when he tried to install his webcam on his new Vista machine with XP drivers. Naturally the whole thing screwed up, but not in a totally nothing happened way, more of a decoding error which made every image look like a loading screen from a Sinclair Spectrum. The colours and splashes of detail are quite striking, I think they're beaufiful and a great example of random, almost naive digital art. The full set is here, my personal favourites are below:
Musically:
The ZX Spectrum Orchestra make skatty, glitchy music by writing new programs and breaking existing ones for the ZX Spectrum. They create insane visuals to go with the loading sounds and primitive voice synthesisers of the late 80s. To see them live is a truely awesome experience, but for those of you unable to do this their myspace has a lot of their best tracks on it. I've included below a more musical track and also something more raw and glitched up.
I hope you find it possible to enjoy.
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