What means "glitch"?

[Custard]

Often read this word, many people love this musical attribute but I don't know what it should mean.

So, how do you define "glitch" music?

[clubfoot]

I think Justin Maxwell can answer that question for you - listen to the 'Your Stupid EP' on Palette Recordings.

[dou]

If the naysayers have been complaining a lot that electronic music just sounds like a cd skipping over and over again, you can now show them this genre as verifiable proof that YES--indeed, that is what the music is doing. clicks, cuts, scratchy, sped-up samples, and everything but the kitchen sink. This is sound collage music, put together with all the skill and ingenuity of a 5 year old finger painting. And Glitchcore rules for that stupid fact alone.

from here

[dou]

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[smith]

Often read this word, many people love this musical attribute but I don't know what it should mean.

So, how do you define "glitch" music?

http://vagueterrain.net/content/archive ... nal01.html

No definitions per say, but many meditations on exactly your question.

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[Robot Criminal]

from here

haha it's a new one? this guy won't stop!
funny reading though

MINIMAL TECHNO:
Listening to it makes you sophisticated, and actually liking it makes you 1337.

and check out what this guy has to say about hard acid techno, god and humans.


PS i'm so offtopic as one can be i think

[adam]

Glitch was just a simple reference to the types of sounds people started adapting as part of their compositions but more importantly the technique.. the use of the "interruption" to sounds, introduction of harsh noise and sounds that in all realism may have sounded like something malfunctioning used in interesting ways. Everyone started using it as a genre identifier and basically every kind of music incorrectly adapts it now. It is kind of silly though, the term didn't catch on until everyone became obsessed with the idea of machines dying and making weird noises that they could record and market as something 'cool'. It's been around for a LONG time though.

[gillsans]

http://www.vagueterrain.net/content/arc ... nal01.html

introduction: what is your major malfunction?
from - Vague Terrain