bent [2017], bent v.2 [2019], variable duration
Custom Max/MSP/Jitter environment, found footage, variously processed/sourced digital audio, and live ensemble.
Original iteration commissioned and performed by Ensemble Pamplemousse.
Second iteration commissioned and performed by wildUp, presented by the Soraya stage at CSU Northridge.
bent is an incomprehensible glut of data ripped from free video sites and streaming services; a backlog of human and algorithmic data accumulation focused on the material history of a band; a continuously degrading trash heap siphoning malfunctioning content back into the archival ‘Long Tail’ of the web’s network of hyperlinks and window displays. It is essentially a piece about mediation, a situation where the glitching artifacts of virtual mediation overwrite the very content its showing.