Re: [microsound] Re: History of Glitch

[Bill Jarboe <billjarboe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 10/21/03 11:44 PM, Emma Stewart at emmakstewart@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone help me with information on the following (ie online
> articles/discussions/essays, books, journals etc) -
> 
> * The history of glitch (since early 1980's computer music)

 'glitch depends on the glitcher'(to paraphrase my grandfather).

> * Relationship between glitch and advances in digital technology

 when there are new things which glitch , there are newer glitches.

> * The future of glitch -  as we move into the post-digital age. What effect
> will post-digital technology have on glitch?

 Some audio recordings of glitches will most likely outlive the  devices
from where they came. This might introduce 'vintage glitch' and'live vintage
glitch' categories. One might think carefully before , say: spending 350
dollars in order to replace the power supply on something in order to bring
it back to life enough to not work properly.

> Where is it going?
> * History and use of granular synthesis within glitch as a music genre

 This really depends on whether you believe in evolutionary theory and
whether there is such a thing as acoustic granular synthesis. I'd say there
is , and fashioning 'birds from clay' or 'living creatures from the
elements' qualifies.

  Throwing a stink bomb into the orchestra pit might also be acoustic
granular synthesis.

  As far as the electronic approach ( sidestepping the issue of 'what is
electronic , what isn't ; are my nerves making electronic music even if I
don't tell anyone?) in the commonly understood sense it's probably the other
way around: 'History and use of glitch within granular synthesis as a music
genre'. It's likely someone discovered that what they were trying to hide
became the most interesting , and when they discovered that one could
determine in exact increments of time how long it took for something to
become interesting that's when the person decided that the person who was
still the same person really had something.

       Was this any help?
> 
> Cheers,

       Cheers to you.

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