Spectral Remnants began with a pile of CDs I found beside a dumpster: Cher, Janet Jackson, Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, RuPaul. I glitched them by drawing on their surfaces with markers and recorded the skipping, beeping, pitch-warped results through a thrift-store CD player. I then baked those sounds into my avatar's skeleton, so it stutters and convulses as if possessed. Feeding the footage back through TouchDesigner created loops where sound generated image and image generated sound. Through Derrida's idea of hauntology, the piece imagines the CDs' former owner haunting the present through static and drone.




