Glitch Art Dot Com

The HDK crowdfunding initiative is well under way with full funding already achieved! Eternal grattitude to all who have already supported. That said, the time to purchase one is now. If you’ve ever wanted the ability to corrupt HD signals in real time for live use and post processing hop on board. As of writing this 2 modified Roland V2-HDs still exist. Nab one while you can!

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-hdk-01-hdmi-video-decay-processor-from-bpmc/

First and foremost…. TELEVANDALISTS are shipping. It’s going a lot slower than planned due to hand assembly but they are indeed beginning to ship and you WILL be notified with a tracker as soon as yours is ready. They are expected to ship all through August and into September. Thanks everybody for hanging tough with the one man show. In an effort to offer all ya’ll who threw down more bang for your buck I’ve capped this release at 100 LEGIT… giving it a bit of a limited edition high yield investment feel. Ha!

Second, current availability is reflected in the stock on the site. Nothing is available beyond what you see on the site unless posted up in the BPMC instagram stories or on the BPMC gear overflow instagram.

Third, based on my web presence, it may currently look like BPMC is straight defunct. In reality, BPMC has never been busier with a lot of long term projects nearing completion. So far this year I’ve been prioritizing development/building over keeping up appearances… trying to establish a blanace, but it’s a weak link of mine for sure.. I’m finally moving forward into the next phase of BPMC with new digital hardware, new revamped upcycled designs, a NEW WEB SITE and new glitch video assets for video production. I’m also finally getting a hand from the community! I’ve got the talented mister Peter Clark (@Enternull) on all GUI designs going forward. I’ve also got the man the myth the legend…. Brownshoesonly of LZX & Bitchin Bajas fame generously working on select control board PCB layouts. There’s even a rumor I’ve got some assembly help going forward… just a rumor though. *please please please be true hehe*

Fourth, what’s up with the HDK-01? Pending Indiegogo approval. Any day now. Still waiting. :-/

Thanks ya’ll for continuing to give a shit and wishing everybody a creative and safe summer… more coming atcha soon!

Proud to announce after all these years that I’ve got a run of modified Sony PS1s available on the site. Done up right and shipping in May. Please read the details of sale at the top of the product page before ordering. The Playstation 2 details are a little delayed due to an unanticipated full studio move this month, but I’ll have it handled and be back at you with more details shortly. Thanks so much for your interest and support. Peace be with you

This is your chance to get a couple of old modified favorites in time for the holidaze…. doing a couple more PAUP EYEs, a couple more VIDEO NASTIES & a couple more PREMIUM/BASIC CABLES in time for the holidaze and before the 2023 switch-up. All items ship by Dec 21st, the solstice. Any orders placed after November 27th cannot be guaranteed for shipping by December 24th…. Please do not order internationally with Christmas timeline expectations, I cannot hit that mark, my apologies. All the best and stay tuned everybody… lots of new new on the horizon.

The glitch blockade has ended. *Phew*

Thanks for hanging in there with me folks… it was a wilder spring than anticipated. Good news for those looking for some fresh glitch flavors though… I’ve had a light restock for the fair month of June… one heavy (the Edirol V4) and the usual suspects…. your Basics, your Premiums, Your Fritzies…. back in business baby!

Apologies it’s been so quiet on the Paup front. As a solo entity I’ve been having a tough time maintaining an internet presence at the same time as building gear and feverishly developing the new gear. With gear drying up and getting obscenely expensive I’ve felt the compulsion to get these new designs wrapped up with the quickness. That said, I am shooting for June to be a big month with a number of new releases finally debuting.. perhaps even a pre-order or two.

I’ll have more for you in the week to come. Thanks for sticking by ol’ Paup and hope you’ve all been well, positive and creative in this death spiral hellscape of an existence.

Check back often and follow ol’ BPMC on instagram at @bpmc_glitch as news unfolds.
Kind Regards,

Gentleman Paupúr Esq

May 2022

This May is another sales-hold month for BPMC. In an effort to continue to get caught up on past orders and the development of the new gear I will be holding off on taking new orders this month. It’s not ideal but once again, doing the army of me thing can be slow-goings. Fret not though loyal glitchers, I am still slingin’ Fluxus DUOs which are pre-built and Fritz Decontrollers which are hand built and ship within 3 weeks time. If neither of these options tickle your fancy however hang in there… I’m on the cusp of posting pre-orders for an assortment of exciting new manufactured releases I am super proud of and hope you will enjoy. It’s the culmination of the last few years of development over here at BPMC HQ and I’m super excited to share more with ya’ll super soon… More on that shortly, for real!

Talk more shortly so STAY TUNED,

Cheers

PAUP! May 2022

First off, Paup working around the clock…. lots o’ orders are in. In an attempt to get caught up on outstanding orders and to continue to develop the new-ness, ol’ Paup will be taking April off from sales (minus the Fluxus DUO as they are pre-built). Will be back up and running and significantly caught up in the fair month of May (*please tell me it’s almost surf season again*). In the meanwhile, I need a little time to get all this glitch slung. I fell ill there for a little bit and on top of some parts delays it all set me back a little bit. As it stands things are a little delayed right now and while I’m doing my best to respond to everybody in a timely manner it may take me a minute. I appreciate everybody’s patience on the order front and apologize if ship times are exceeding the initial target ship date. Be with you shortly.

Adderall, coffee and veggies..

Paup

I recently had the distinct honor and pleasure of collaborating with the legendary Richard Devine on a multi-sensory piece for Moog synthesizers. The project is called “Cathodoluminescence” and features Richard with an original track (composed on the Moog Grandmother and the Matriarch) and myself contributing the visual element. To find out more about the piece as well as read a conversation between Richard and I about the creative process please check out “Cathodoluminescence” on Moog Music.

Originally we had filmed a live performance of Richard’s in Durham, NC for Moogfest. We had used an interactive vector graphics based installation of mine as the backdrop of which I performed on for the shoot. I got involved in the post production, one thing led to another and the live performance evolved into an entirely different affair.

The visuals were created over a number of sessions with an assortment of fun gear in the mix. I had built a couple of interactive video walls for Moog in the past and I wanted to pay homage to them by incorporating a lot of simulated video wall elements into the piece. I also made a point of incorporating a number of the modified gaming systems into the mix. The floating man motif that I return to is from a rare consumer game development platform for the Japanese Sega Saturn that I’ve spent a lot of time with. There is some circuit bent Playstation 1 & 2 in there as well… even some 3DO (let me know if you can pick it hehe). The dominant system in use here is the modified Dreamcast I crafted back in 2016.

The Video Nasty is featured heavily as it is the lone source of analog sync corruption throughout the video wall sequences. As I’ve said before it’s got one of my favorite sync corruption looks in the BPMC arsenal. There is a number of fun DVE units featured in the creation of things as well including the Pinnacle Prism, the Fairlight CVI and some Sony DME series units. Probably some other shit as well, hard to keep track.

The piece was composed as I was packing up the Pauper Palace over a number of sessions in an apartment that kept catching fire. Regardless of the fire it was a productive time and I’ve got a lot of unused footage from the sessions. I thought it’d be nice to piece together an alternate edit of the video using the original live track Devine and I were first working from (which is another banger). Something for the BPMC youtube channel a little later on in the year perhaps.

It’s been an honor working with Moog over the years. I grew up playing an Etherwave theremin and saving my hard earned cash for a Moog Model D from Daddy’s Junky Music in Boston, MA. Big respect for Bob and the house that Bob built (no respect for the House Jack Built however… the f is wrong with Von Trier?). Besides the point but I missed meeting him by ONE session at RBMA a year before he passed away. Still haunts me! That said, much respect to Richard and Moog and thanks for watching.

Ships October 31st 2021. Pre-order now.

For more than ten years now I, your boy Big Pauper, have been creating multimedia art with hacked gaming consoles. “Choose Your Villains: Corrupt Gaming Works Vol 1” from BPMC is a deluxe 30 minute VHS release showcasing numerous released and unreleased single channel multimedia pieces from 2010-2020.

Admittedly part of the initial corrupt gaming allure for me was the NBD (never been done) status of so many common gaming systems. CGW Vol 1 highlights work created with the world’s first circuit bent Sega Saturn, Panasonic 3DO FZ-10, JVC X’Eye, Sega Dreamcast, Sony Playstation, Sony Playstation 2 & Sega CD. Bending ego aside, upon approaching these machines as creative tools a whole new world of self-expression opened up to me and an obsession was established.

It’s hard to summarize so many different themes and moments in time but I’d say the overarching goal with a lot of these pieces was to divorce the viewer from the branding and the inherent nostalgia of retro gaming… I was hoping to take the viewer into a vaguely familiar yet abstract world of sight n sound. A lot of the pieces here have never seen the light of day as I’ve had this collection in mind for some while.

Choose Your Villains: CGW Vol 1 is available in a limited quantity and comes with a hand screen printed VHS case, a small riso zine and more polygonal rot than you can shake a stick at. Labor of love style. Thanks everybody for checking out my work. Be well.

Oof! Your boy fell off hard with the updates. My apologies. Ya’ll have kept me running regardless and for that I am forever grateful. Things are movin over here! I’m starting to finally dust off some of my pre-pandemic projects and am happy to announce a couple of things on the very near horizon in Paup-ville.

Guess who’s back?!? The PAUP EYE round two pre-order goes up March 20th at noon pacific time (SHIPS JUNE 1ST). Really I just wanna keep my IG feed full of pretty glitch pics… it’s been a real delight seeing what ya’ll do with these things. I’m only able to facilitate a run of 15 this time and it will be the last run with this camera model……. but don’t fret if you miss out!! I’ve got another glitch camera release in the pipelines.

Remember HDK? I sure do! The facking prototype has been sitting on my desk by the computer for over three years now… ulp!!! Well, this summer I’ll finally be setting the cogs in motion to bring raw 1080p HDMI glitch to your doorstep. This will be my first foray into Kickstarter as the manufacturing commitment on this one isssssss significant… so wish me luck. I’m confident however that if we spread the word folks will come out of the woodwork for this one. The end results are just too good.

As BC/PC supply lines began to dry up I teased the VIDEO NASTY; a worthy analog glitch video successor. The Video Nasty pre-order goes up FOR SURE this April. For the glitchers on a budget I’ve done my damnedest to make sure that all the evil that can be coaxed forth from this circuit is indeed at your fingertips. I’ve even employed a custom CV circuit with internal oscillation that I add to each one. With it’s release a host of swag I’ve been meaning to squeeze out into the ether will finally be available. This includes limited sticker sets, mix tapes…. and *woah* paup-printed t-shirts?!? SHA-BAM!

Last but not least, I’ve been creating content for the new BPMC youtube page that, while delayed, will debut videos this spring. The years are slipping thru my fingers and I wanted to take a chance to both document some of my projects as well as pass on some knowledge to all the folks that have been emailing me asking for tips over the years. I just had to hastily vacate my residence so they are slower to trickle out than I’d like, but I should be back up and running soon. Peace!