More on this 349th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Got Glitch? / The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did) at:

https://disquiet.com/0349/

Major thanks to Sevenisn, Mark Lentczner, and other folks in the Junto Slack for pitching in on this project’s development.

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Disquiet Junto Project 0349: Got Glitch?

The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did.

Step 1:  Consider what “glitch” means in music/sound.

Decades ago, when I listened to vinyl records, some of my albums had pops and jumps in them.  Today, when I listen on streaming services to those same recordings, I still have the mental note of those glitches.

For me, "glitch" is about an unexpected and mostly-unwanted mistake happening, usually technically.  I don't think I could purposefully "glitch" an existing piece of music.  That is not my style.

"Pretty Glitchy" was made around 2011 or 2012, recorded live.  I used bad output wires then.  I don't anymore.

Normally, I would delete this kind of track, but there was something interesting about the juxtaposition of a "pretty" piece of music and the creeping glitch happening during the performance, so I kept it and I'm glad I did.

More on this 349th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Got Glitch? / The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did) at:

https://disquiet.com/0349/

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Pretty Glitchy (disquiet0349)

Disquiet Junto Project 0349: Got Glitch?
The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did.

I think "glitch" pretty much sums up my approach to making music, possibly also "junk". Most things I do are the result of mistakes or accidents that I then make into some kind of structure and then add simplistic improvisations.

This weeks track is largely constructed from elements that have had some kind hardware, software or player malfunction contribute to the sound generation or rhythm. The different elements were recorded over a number of years and these have been arranged into a "song" structure to which I then added a simplistic bass line and percussion (very heavy handedly at the end).

A few years ago I was mucking about with my Yamaha CS70M's ring modulator and feeding it through a recently acquired Eventide H8000FW. Something happened to H8000 while I was quickly scrolling through presets, it kind of freaked out and got stuck (a patch with bad data I think) and became unresponsive. The mangled patch was a combination of Harmonizer and Distortion effects. I was holding a few notes down on the CS70M through the H8000 and it sounded pretty cool so I recorded the resultant drone into Logic before having to hard reboot the H8000. I recorded another pass playing a slow melody while tweaking the ring mod controls. Sadly, the glitched patch is lost forever.

The random, glitched rhythmic parts come from Stylus RMX. I had a lot of issues with Stylus back in the day, and once I managed to freak it out playing with Stylus' Chaos Designer. Logic froze, but the crazy stuttered craziness it was making was too good not to capture. I used AudioHijack Pro to grab the audio before force quitting Logic. The glitched up loop fades in at the beginning of the track and continues through.

The "rhythm guitar" part was a stuff up. I was trying to program strums into MusicLab's Real Guitar playing in real time. My janky playing ended up sounding like someone drumming their fingers on the strings, a little bit of quantisation later and I had an interesting "guitar" part. Maybe. If I was a better player I'd funk up the bass line a bit. :D

APOB - Onedr [disquiet0349]

Using SuperCollider I tried to perturb the playback of this sample

https://freesound.org/people/Bradovic/sounds/171326/

into something glitchy -  dropouts, reverse, rate changes, etc. plus delay and reverb

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More on this 349th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Got Glitch? / The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did) at:

https://disquiet.com/0349/

Major thanks to Sevenisn, Mark Lentczner, and other folks in the Junto Slack for pitching in on this project’s development.

More on the Disquiet Junto at:

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Disquiet Junto Project 0349: Got Glitch? (disquiet0349)

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