Germany's Rastermusic has also been active, issuing their trademark spermy-white slabs of vinyl and CDs housed in nothing but clear plastic. The packaging of glitchwerks tends to be as innovative and experimental as the music. A variety of unconventional materials are used from anti-static paper to transparent materials to lots of empty white space . It's hard to know what to do with this stuff. The site is a perfect visual translation of what happens in the music.
Layers unfold upon layers, links are hard to find, text and image merge into a digital tangle.
Like the internet itself, with the technology evolving hourly, the entire genre of glitchwerks seems like a giant work in progress, making it very hard to pin down. What follows below is my attempt to make some sense of it all. If you're looking for the purest manifestation of glitchwerks, Beautyon is it. It's a virtual catalog of the new digital sounds. Unfortunately, it might not be anything more than that.