Broken Aesthetics
for Broken Times.™
"Tools not simply meant to entertain. Tools meant to subvert, invert, contort, corrupt, distort & disrupt the machine operated details of modern living."
GLITCH ACHIEVEMENTS AND ACCOLADES AS BPMC/BIG PAUPER:
First manufactured glitch video fx processor (Fluxus 2015)
First manufactured eurorack glitch video fx processor (Fluxus DUO 2018)
Previously NBD stable modifications/builds:
Sega Saturn (2010), JVC X’Eye (2010), Sega CD (2010), Panasonic FZ-10 3DO (2011), Sony Playstation (2014), Sony Playstation 2 (2016), Roland/Edirol V4 (2017), Roland/Edirol V8 (2018)
BPMC WAS/IS CULTURALLY INFLUENCED BY THE LIKES OF....
Karl Klomp, Arius Blaze, Ben Houston, Videofreex, Survival Research Laboratories, Mystic Fire Video, Weather Underground, Snell AND Wilcox, Blacklisted! 411, 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, Lars Larsen, ESPTV, Bread & Puppet, Buzz R Electronics, Earth First, St Jude, R.U. Sirius, Bart Nagel, Videocipher, The Bomb Squad, Bill Viola, The Vasulkas, DGR, J.G. Ballard, Jolly Roger, Loompanics, Martha Daghlian and Brad Hamers.
Did you know?
BPMC has it's roots in illicit electronics from the 80s & 90s. Modified Rat Shack tone dialers, cable descramblers purchased thru the backs of magazines & lineman's handsets lifted straight from the telco truck all had a significant impression on me as a child. The idea that technology could be subverted to level the playing field between producer and consumer never ceased to fascinate me. BPMC began with a Rat Shack Electronics Learning Lab, a soldering iron and dot matrix Jolly Roger cookbook printout obtained via a random hacker dial-up BBS.
