Chris Hixon is the brains behind local weirdo band Baboon Torture Divison. A longtime explorer of sonic frontiers, he began circuit bending in in 1997 when he stepped on the voicebox of a singing Santa Clause, causing it to glitch. After obtaining some soldering knowhow, the board was installed in a toy gun with a speaker in the barrel, and the glitch hooked up to the trigger. Since then he has been an avid bender of talking toys and old Casios and has been continuously involved in noise one local noise band or another.