Blog four: steam powered giraffe

John Cage says to "savor the glitch." Well, to take that literally, here is a band that builds glitches into their songs. None of them are actual robots, but they move and play as if they are. Their motions are jerky and calculated. When they perform live, they pretend to break down, or glitch. It has a wonderful effect, making the performances fun and quirky while changing the song each time they perform it. Now, this is an intended effect, but the question still remains: is it part of the music to include the breakdown, or is that a separate thing in and of itself?