Glitch (from the English. Glitch ) - a genre of experimental electronic music that arose in the mid-1990s in Germany .
| Glitch | |
|---|---|
| Direction | Electonic music |
| The origins | Noise Techno IDM Low fi Industrial Breakbeat Syntipop |
| Place and time of occurrence | Germany , 1993-95 |
| Subgenres | |
| Micro house | |
History
The aesthetic beginnings of the glitch can be found in the futurist Luigi Russolo in the manifesto “The Art of Noises ” ( English “The Art of Noises” ) - the ideological basis of “music of noise” ( specific music and, later, ambient and noise ).
The formation and popularization of the genre in the 1990s is primarily associated with the activities of the Frankfurt label Mille Plateaux (collections of Clicks & Cuts ) and the Oval project.
In one of the 2000 issues of Computer Music magazine, composer Kim Cascon used the term “post-digital” to describe experiments related to glitch aesthetics .
Features
The glitch is dominated by acoustic effects due to errors and malfunctions in digital recordings - bugs (software errors), system crashes, hardware noise, crashes and rewind (Skip) CDs and digital distortions , which are often emulated with various effects: distortion, bitcrashers, etc. p., as well as using granular synthesis. Cascon sees glitch as a subgenre of electronic music.
Glitch-style music is usually written on a computer using modern digital software, with which the musician cuts and combines short audio samples into a single track. Together with the bit component in glitch music, short clicks and noises sound.
See also
- IDM
- Minimal house
- Minimal techno