Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. Glitch is characterized by the deliberate use of sonic artifacts ("glitches") that can result from malfunctioning digital technology, such as produced by computer bugs, crashes, system errors, hardware noise, CD skipping, and digital distortion. In a Computer Music Journal article published in 2000, composer and writer Kim Cascone cla...
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Glitch is a term used to describe a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the mid to late 1990s. Glitch is characterized by the deliberate use of sonic artifacts ("glitches") that can result from malfunctioning digital technology, such as produced by computer bugs, crashes, system errors, hardware noise, CD skipping, and digital distortion. In a Computer Music Journal article published in 2000, composer and writer Kim Cascone classifies glitch as a sub-genre of electronica, and used the term post-digital to describe the glitch aesthetic.
The origins of the glitch aesthetic can be traced to the early 20th century, with Luigi Russolo's Futurist manifesto The Art of Noises, the basis of noise music. Later musicians and composers made use of malfunctioning technology, such as Christian Marclay who used mutilated vinyl records to create sound collages from the mid-1970s. Yasunao Tone used damaged CDs in his Techno Eden performance in 1985, while Nicolas Collins's 1992...
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