RE: [microsound] guitar distortion as the 1st glitch aesthetic?

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this discussion keeps bringing to mind the "extended techniques" utilized by improvisors for I don't know how long.  it seems to me that sound making tools or instruments were developed out of a process of discovery, then codified into cultural norms, and then entered another phase of exploration wherein musicians and others attempted to push the boundaries established by the culture and find other ways of sounding pianos, guitars, saxophones, percussion instruments, etc., etc.  Could the "glitch aesthetic" not be looked at in much the same way?  With the difference being that the process described briefly above was very accelerated in the case of the computer as sounding tool, the phase of exploration and pushing boundaries took place before very many norms were established so that the glitch is now somewhat of a norm itself.  I understand the philosophical interest in the "aesthetics of failure" and find alot of the ideas that intersect it to be thought provoking, but I think that
 it is also possible to see the glitch in the context of an ongoing process of creative exploration that exemplifies some of the best characteristics of human nature.  The relationship between the glitch and the extended techniques of improvisors and musicians from very different backgrounds, traditions, and cultures would seem to me to be one of the many reasons that improvisors and computer sound makers have been drawn to one another in Europe, the US, Japan, and across the globe.  One of the things I love about The Wire (magazine) is the way it seems to document and cultivate this kind of thing simultaneously.  As someone who has experimented with alot of different sound making tools in a lot of different contexts, I find that my approach to making sound with a computer is not really that different from working with guitars, pianos, analog tape, delays, etc.  To me, the computer is another sound making tool full of possibilities to explore.  

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                                                                      mhw

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> Interesting discussion.. What about the place of technology in 'harnessing' 
> the glitch? In being able to create soley from failure or unexpected 
> quantities. 
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> Perhaps we can retrospectively look at the history of music and analyse the 
> 'glitch aesthetic' because of our ability to *see* (hear) it now. 
> 
> Simon. 
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