Re: [microsound] Composers using "glitch" need to just do it!

["R. Ecalcitrance" <Akira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Yeah, the term glitch

glitch (glItS). slang. [Etym. unknown.] a. A surge of current or aspurious
electrical signal (see quots.); also, in extended use, asudden short-lived
irregularity in behaviour. b. Astronauts slang. A hitch or snag; a
malfunction.

1962 J. Glenn in Into Orbit 86 Another term we adopted to describe some of
our problems was glitch. Literally, a glitch is a spike or change in voltage
in anelectrical circuit which takes place when the circuit suddenly has a
new load put on it... A glitch..is such a minute change in voltage that no
fuse could protect against it. Ibid. 245 Glitch, amomentary change in
voltage in an electrical circuit; (slangahitch).

1962 R. F. Graf Mod. Dict. Electronics (1963) 124 Glitch,low-frequency
interference in a television picture. It is seen asa narrow bar moving
vertically.1969 Product Engineering 27 Jan. 15/3 It generated digital
transients that caused the abortguidance to send false signals. Phillips
said it took aninordinately long time to find this glitch.

1969 Funk & Wagnalls Dict. Electronics 70 Glitch, a stray current or signal,
usually one that interferes in some way with the functioning of a system.

1969 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 1/3 [Apollo moon flight] Thinking back to when we
had our big glitch, I remember seeing it get light outsidethe window after
we were in the clouds, and Im pretty sure we gothit by lightning.

1971 Nature: Physical Sci. 14 June 146/2 Two pulsars have exhibited a sudden
increase in frequency (glitch), after which the usual slowing down has been
resume