Comments on: What Makes Glitch?

By: PhiSequence

PhiSequence — Mon, 16 May 2011 02:41:19 +0000

Andrew,
Glitch is such an interesting subject and musical genre that I also fell in love with it. It’s not so much about pain for me, but about found sounds, interesting tempo changes, samples that can make you shudder and fill you up with interesting emotions. In a word, it’s Glitch! Experimental fun. Glad there are others out there who enjoy it as much as I do.

By: Andrew Lessiter

Andrew Lessiter — Mon, 16 May 2011 02:12:33 +0000

I am thrilled to find a place where people are discussing this subject. I found Glitch about a year ago. Now, did anyone ever have the feeling that they imagined music that they wanted to write and even listen to? Well I kept imagining this music that I could only ever imagine in my head which I called glitch, then I searched the word on the net and an explosion occurred. At last!!!!!! I found music that was not just about a melodic or rhythmic pattern that moved me emotionally, but a music that used the frequency range that could – make you feel sick, have pin-like sensations in very strange places on and in the body, um….headaches ha and not because of volume lol.

Now I am certainly not saying that I love pain, but I will say that for me, glitch music does exactly what most music only attempts, and I enjoy a lot of music of all genres.

Actually Im not going to go on any more!!! Glitch is a truly exciting voice that reaches out, takes hold of you and says “this will wake you up again!!!” I feel like a new born human. With new ears, and a new being musically.

By: Phi Sequence

Phi Sequence — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:08:56 +0000

Thanks Joe! I’ll have to check him out. I always love the blend of ambient and glitch. I think it leaves one open to a lot of interesting possibilities and randomness. That just sits well with me. I’ll be posting some articles in the future when I have time about how to make some random effects in Reason/Record. Just have to work my head around some of the routings. Also, when Peff has his new Reason 4 PowerTools book out, I’m sure it will have a lot of interesting possibilities for those of us that like Glitch.

All my best!

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 04:35:37 +0000

Excellent little article! I’m attempting to move more into glitch myself as I do find it incredibly interesting and VERY VERY effective in even minimal ambient music and usage. My favorite musician right now (and fave new musician of 02009 is Adverb (the “Monument EP” is the best, I think). You can find his music on the Electronica.ru label (www.electronicalabel.ru).

Thanks,
Joe/Luxx

By: Phi Sequence

Phi Sequence — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:27:34 +0000

Thanks Douglas. I’m glad you’re enjoying the tutorials. Hopefully I can throw a few tidbits out there that make sense and are helpful. That’s the point after all. If you’re interested in some of my photoshop artwork, I also run http://www.chainstyle.com — stay tuned. I have a few more articles waiting to be posted this week. And if you use anything I’ve created in your own work, please let me know. I’m always interested to see what people come up with.

All my best. And happy Reasoning!

By: Douglas

Douglas — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:24:02 +0000

My goodness! You are an amazingly helpful as well as talented fellow.

I will certainly stay tuned. I have been devouring all things Record and Reason as I move from wide-eyed Wow! to a more satisfied “aahhh” as I begin to be able to produce the sounds I want using Record. Your tutorials have been quite helpful.

Here’s the link to what I have so far on SoundCloud: http://soundcloud.com/vonaxenbourg/sets/did-you-stub-your-toe

I have some work on deviantArt you might enjoy: http://vonaxenbourg.deviantart.com/gallery/

Douglas
Seems we have similar interests. Right brain/left brain – thank heavens for the corpus callosum!

By: Phi Sequence

Phi Sequence — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:05:25 +0000

Douglas,
It’s funny you should ask. I actually work in graphics as well, though I’ve let it lapse a little too much. My other site is http://www.chainstyle.com where you can see the work I do in Photoshop. I’ve always thought of myself as a creative individual more than a logical individual. But my job requires a lot of systematic thinking: creating user steps and procedures to document software processes. I think the older I get, the more I see the balance between left and right brain. The realization that you can create works of art and beaty using mathematical algorithms and coding has always been a fascinating subject. But where earlier in my life I saw the artistic process as a hands-on interaction between the person and the canvas and/or the page, I now see that it can be intertwined with the computer and I’ve never looked back. Whether it be Photoshop, web design, creating fractals, music. I think it’s all part of one of the greatest journeys of my life.

And that’s how I truly feel. I’m just lucky that I can incorporate this into my free time and my work.

As a sidenote, I’ll probably be writing a few more tutorials on randomization and automation in Reason/Record in the coming months. So stay tuned. I think that would definitely be something that will appeal to your “sensibility” — the random and chaotic within the confines of the linear structure of Reason/Record.

All my best!

By: Phi Sequence

Phi Sequence — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:53:15 +0000

Douglas,
if you like Soundcloud, then you might also like Soundclick. There are a ton of interesting musicians out there just trying to carve their own space and be heard. And though I don’t have as much time as I would like to listen to other music, I would still rather support the independant artist. I’ve pretty much given up on the regular bricks and mortar music store.
All my best.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:29:10 +0000

Also…

Thanks for the pointer to SoundClound. It looks great.

By: Douglas

Douglas — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:11:03 +0000

Yes, labels…when we talk about music or any art form, we use cognitive concepts to frame activity and expression whose origin may be right-brain or pre-verbal. One of my goals as a musician has been to move the origin of my music farther back in my nervous system, if you will, away from my fore-brain and the structure that lives there. Or at least to let undifferentiated, nonlinear (reptilian?) experience have equal sway in what I create. This searching for the nonlinear is what leads me to experimental music.

Using programs like Record, which are sequential and linear in nature, may seem antithetical to a search for the nonlinear and undifferentiated, but really, that’s kind of the fun, to use structure to produce non-structure, or to create an edifice and then tear off its layers to reveal its essential nothingness.

I’m curious – with your conceptual and systemic mind, do you engage in other creative forms?

Douglas