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

[John Hopkins <jhopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> it occurred to me that overdriven guitar amps, and their eventual
> (inevitably?) incorporation into the rock aesthetic is one of the
> greatest examples of 'glitch' (or as cascone calls it, 'the aesthetics
> of failure') at and early point, prior to digital technology. i'm

You might consider including, for example, Coltrane's use (abuse) of 
the sax, as well.  Also, I can remember live work by the Art Ensemble 
of Chicago moves in that direction.  In a way, many have stretched 
the instrument to the extreme (to, and beyond failure), to find a 
particular expressive energy...

labels like glitch perhaps only represent a contemporarization of a 
consisted process of stretching the technological envelope of a 
device...  if you compare "distortion" to "glitch" in a fundamental 
way, not much difference...

jh

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