Matt DeMello

After nearly a decade of relative obscurity, Matt DeMello was invited to perform at his first major streaming festival just as the world shut down during the opening months of the COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020. Joined by then-fiancée Jennifer Nordmark, DeMello transformed a small apartment performance setup into a chaotic, emotionally overloaded livestream for VoidFest 2020 that reportedly crashed the festival servers less than thirty minutes into the set.

Thankfully, the entire performance survived through the duo’s local recording rig. Aside from a later remix/remaster for clarity — along with a few merciful edits removing stretches of technical troubleshooting — the set remains largely untouched: an intimate time capsule from the strange early days of quarantine, when livestreams briefly became substitute community spaces for isolated musicians, internet weirdos, and emotionally stranded audiences across the world.

Part concert film, part nervous breakdown, part accidental telethon, 'Jennifer's Appendix, Vol. 2: The VoidFest 2020 Set That Should Have Been' captures the transitional moment when DeMello’s long-running DIY ecosystem unexpectedly collided with the livestream-era vaporwave and online underground communities that would later help propel projects like 'Cassandra Abandoned I & II' and 'Confetti in a Coalmine' toward wider cult attention.

Special thanks to Jim Moon at Telekosmik Records and Screaming Into the Void for the invitation, Ilya at I<3Noise for spreading the word, and Ignasus for helping circulate the release through “Music for a Confinement” during Bandcamp’s waived-fees day on May 1st, 2020 — one of the many small acts of online communal survival that briefly made the early quarantine internet feel strangely humane.