Nebular

Glitch music is often described as an aesthetic form of failure — of a mistake, a mechanical error. A glitch is seen as the wrong interpretation of a right sound, a less perfect version of its sonic predecessor. Glitches are inextricably linked to their point of origin.


But when a sound becomes so distorted, a sample so small, a timbre so random, there is practically no origin anymore. The listener can’t comprehend what has been done to a sound, neither do they care. In the end, it’s all sound waves rearranged from one combination into another.


Is a recording of a human voice that is manipulated to sound like a drum still a recording of a human voice? How can we know for sure where any recorded sound we hear came from? Does knowing the origin of a sample really matter, or is the final result independent from what it was initially based on?


I see glitched sounds as their own resource, strictly separated from the context of their original versions. A sample carries over its own characteristic, it bends its surroundings to be joyful, or mellow, or energetic, or more rhythm-oriented, or however you can describe it. By bending the sample, disrupting its rhythmic structure, randomising the length and pitch of its fragments, breaking and reassembling it, I destroy its original identity and fit it into my own existing narrative.


This EP depicts my very first steps in using deconstruction as a creative tool. SOURCE IRRELEVANT, a mishmash of experiments and tryouts, uses broken down samples as textural patterns, ear candy, percussive elements and atmospheric loops.

Reintro

Proclamation

Identity Crisis

Droplets

Magnets

Source Irrelevant (Mix)

An original Ableton Live timbre pack inspired by horror cinema suspense and industrial noise.

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