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Glitch music


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    • Glitch music
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    • Microsound (Music)
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    • found: Work cat.: 2008423124: Gard, S. Nasty noises, 2008:p. 5-6 (glitch music, an electroacoustic sub-genre; electroacoustic music constructed from sonorities signifying error, especially sounds produced by malfunctioning devices, or corrupted files) p. 23 (Glitches are source from audio devices, e.g. a purposely defaced, skipping, or fast-forwarded CD, the back-tracking lead in groove of a vinyl record, and many difficult-to-identify electronic hiccups. Glitch can also derive from any sampled sound, sliced into fragments, filtered with software like Buzz, and redistributed as gesture or percussive accent) p. 24 (Another term used for glitch music is microsound, but there is a subtle difference: microsound tends to be a product of the university-based and research-oriented composer)
    • found: Wikipedia, Oct. 30, 2008(Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s; Glitch is characterized by a preoccupation with the sonic artifacts that can result from malfunctioning digital technology, such as those produced by bugs, crashes, system errors, hardware noise, CD skipping, and digital distortion; scratched vinyl records, circuit bending, and other noise-like distortions figure prominently into the creation of rhythm and feeling in glitch)
    • found: 670 AllMusic, viewed July 18, 2014(Glitch; as computer-aided composition slowly eclipsed the traditional analog approach to crafting electronica, the palette of possible sounds soon widened immensely, resulting in the advent of the glitch style in the late '90s; first championed by the ideological German techno figure Achim Szepanski; it wasn't long before the glitch aesthetic began being crossbred with existing genres)
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    • 2014-12-10: new
    • 2015-02-13: revised
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