Disquiet Junto Project 0349: Got Glitch?

[smbols]

First time participating in a Disquiet project!

In my opinion what separates glitch from other sorts of noise used in music is that it’s created by accidental or forced errors of computation.

There’s a wonderful “Stutter Mode” built into Sandrine Sims’ Reflex Liveloop. It’s based on an older sampler she built where she accidentally shorted an address pin, and the mode essentially scrambles the binary addressing system of the module. She describes the behavior in the original manual:

“A binary number produced by the knobs is laid onto the sampler’s pointer in memory. This will cause some locations to repeat, depending on what the binary weight is, large or small loops will occur.”

I used this as the basis for glitching this song. The original sounds are composed on a sampler and polysynth. I set the Liveloop to record into a long buffer, around 1 minute, and feedback on itself so errors are layering atop errors. After letting the errors build upon each other for several cycles I started recording the performance. Each channel of the module is set to stutter differently, creating two opposing but related rhythms, and each is fed into a different filter and then mixed back in with its own dry signal. In order to blend the channels together I ran them through a Mid-Side encoder which sounded more interesting than a mono mix but much less jarring than feeding one into each ear separately. The left and right channels are slightly out of phase, too, so the side signal shouldn’t totally disappear when not listening through headphones (though I would recommend headphones).

[jks]

I started off quite wary of this week’s junto; i have a… faintly overwrought relationship with SCARE QUOTES the glitch SCARE QUOTES i guess; a deep affection coloured by a certain… wariness? i always wonder to myself if i’m doing it right which is kinda ridiculous but exactly the sort of thought pattern i’m inclined to… maybe that in itself is a glitch in itself?

So yeah, i figured i was gonna sit this one out & i tried not to think about it but, well, it was a quiet Saturday & ended up thinking about it quite a lot and ended up, y’know, tinkering.

My main problem at first was how to make * honest * glitches, not something that was * simply * an effect but then, in the process of even gently mapping something out I [re]discovered that my aging computer is running out memory & storage space & so it was actually quite easy to make the poor think skip & buffer during playback; play a bunch of files whilst downloading a large-ish pdf & i could [let it] turn the smoothest playback into something jittery, stilted & breaking…

so yeah, with the idea in mind that a glitch is an abrupt skip or lurch intrinsic to the playback medium, I got to work mangling things & then mangling the mangled things; in the end this piece is as much about splicing as glitching i suppose but, at least in my mind the two are connected; maybe the deliberately abrupt splice is the fully intentional glitch?

so yeah, what we have here is some rain, an alarm, a faintly randomised set of percussive pre-sets, one of those tedious advert tracks recorded off of a spam Soundcloud account, some YouTube fragments, some hiss, & iterations and entanglements thereof.

https://soundcloud.com/jmmy-kpple/but-a-draught-of-a-draught-disquiet0249?in=jmmy-kpple/sets/d-i-s-q-u-i-e-t-j-u-n-t-o-y-e

[Hypoid]

You showed remarkable restraint here, I was expecting seizure inducing coma Fun stuff! That is exactly why I don’t make many vids anymore, so much fun but just don’t have the time necessary. Being a bit of an old car nut, I fully endorse your source material!

[samarobryn]

First time trying something intentionally “glitch” - I really liked the idea of embracing and celebrating the “faults” of a media source and/or effect through disruption. Sometimes the world is too polished and clean for its own good.

For this, I took a 20sec sample of a bowed cymbal and ran it through various effects [ETA: in Ableton 9] to disrupt the original sound source.

Layer 1: Trance gate + around the head pan
Layer 2: Transmission [frequency shifter]
Layer 3: Kaputt [redux effect]
Layer 4: Kaput + Transmission
Layer 5: Insect [beat repeat effect]
Layer 6: Original source

I then ran the whole thing through Bit Reduction + Reverb.

[samarobryn]

Welcome to the Junto!

[karol]

https://soundcloud.com/dot_slash_noise/disquiet-junto-project-0349-got-glitch-disquiet0349

I am not 100% happy how it turned out musically but I managed to find a few nice techniques that I would like to study more in the future so not everything is lost In this one I tried to glitch it on many levels.
First I started to play my guitar sloppy without trying to keep tight rhythm and catching enviromental noises in the recording (like my dog walking)
Then I used Ableton live timestreatching algorithm to make it locked to the grid and created a four bar loop.
Next I sliced this four bar loop into 64 slices and used lfos to play random slices (to simulate jitter) and random lfos to bitrate and sample rate reduction.
Then I recorded around 2,5 minutes from this random playing
Then I created four copies of this track and pitched them: one octave lower, non transposed, two octaves higher and four octaves higher.
After that I applied reverb and some Reaktor grainstates fx to some track and automated it.

At the end of the track you can hear the guitar loop after the timestretching but before slicing.
I liked how audio after pitching it up by four octaves started to resemble aliasing noises.

[AIsynthesis]

https://soundcloud.com/forcedamage/skipped-string-disquiet0349

My first thought was to use a no-input mixing or some of my circuit bent stuff, but I wanted to do something different.

An all modular patch from me, using a few modules. In this case, the instrument the clock is clocking is influencing the clock, hence the glitch.

[lifesonance]

Here is my piece for this week’s Got Glitch?

https://soundcloud.com/gbel/punk-glitched-disquiet0349

I had this circuit bending youtube video https://youtu.be/PvlYM5Js450 on my watch list so went for it as source of inspiration but other than some vocals nothing really attracted me…
After a little bit of though processing I remembered my first ever DIY project which I got somewhat working – Glitched?? – a rakits.co.uk Atari Punk Console so I used that as the main sound source.
As I’m in the process of learning the Octatrack everything was done on it and I abused the effects to get the raw sound a little more palatable…
The beginning of track is from a Bhudist prayer radio that I had at hand slowed down so it doesn’t sound right.

It’s a dark one as I wasn’t in the best of moods while playing it.

It was all recorded “live” with me playing parts on the Octatrack.

I hope it feels glitched.

[abalone]

https://soundcloud.com/k-blamo/etrackglitchxdisquiet0349

recorded 17 seconds of guitar on the iphone
and some sounds from the beach
supercollided-ed it
vocals by laura alvarez
(influences)

[abalone]

cool sounds
great track

[vgmrmojo]

https://soundcloud.com/vgmrmojo/what-the-glitch-its-broken

0349disquiet
What the Glitch – It’s Broken
I. Did a little reading about Glitch music and used some of the methods and techniques
II. Chose the following vsti’s and effects to use for this project
III. VSTi’s: Minibit cm, Eurydice cm, RG Muted cm, Thorn, VST Speek, Paulstretch, Blip
IV. Effects: Filterjam, iZotope vinyl, Reverberate cm, Granular loop sampler
V. Recorded, mixed (iZotope Neutron), mastered ( iZotope Ozone 8) in Reaper

[lifesonance]

Really like the simplicity of the track great stuff!

[krehg]

https://soundcloud.com/search?q=%23disquiet0349

The basic source material is some great free samples from Glitchmachines. After stepping all over them, I added a beat from Richard Devine to draw it together.

[janglesoul]

https://soundcloud.com/janglesoul/disquiet0349-nighttime-metronome-glitch

Just a small beat with a glitched up piano.

I got the idea to make a basic rhythm from a field recording of some audio signals from pedastrian crossings at night that I found interesting since they were sort of out of phase with each other. A natural glitch sort of? Then I messed around with the Creative Extensions pack in Ableton, warped some tracks for additional glitch etc.

[drlids]

My track:

Propter hoc

More of a technical piece, trying to learn the ins and outs software that I have been remiss about getting to grips with. So generated in AudioMulch, clipped in Audacity, and beatsliced in Renoise.

Also, glitching my schedule so I can contribute to the Junto after a long time

dl

[CollectionsODS]

Glitch, glitch is always about making something as if it was a tear in reality. So what if that idea was glitched? So that maybe reality reared it’s ugly head into something ugly, and made it beautiful again. So here is a single synth line, completely destroyed, fucked up, and made beautiful again, with a hint, of what it originally was. It’s what I call dreamNOISEpop. https://soundcloud.com/collectionsofdeadsouls/ch-3-66-6-bpm-disquiet0349

[bassling]

As my responses are shaped by what I can show in a video, this prompt led me to use my circuit bent instruments.

I have a few machines that have been bent by Diabolical Devices, including two Casio SK-1s and a Kawai drum machine.

This gear with a 707 and Volca Key are driven by MIDI and I’ve recycled a piece from earlier this year but looped it a few times while trying different bends.

I then added a few glitchy effects in Ableton Live, particularly Beatrepeat and Audio Damage’s Automaton.

The result could use an edit but time ran out.

[GijsW]

I didn’t have much time to do this one, as I’d spent most of my weekend working and then had homework for a lyric writing course that needed to be finished first. However, from the moment I saw the prompt, I knew I was going to work with a badly cropped loop. In the end I took the first two bars of the song I made for said homework, copied it five times and cropped them all incorrectly but in different ways, then used Ableton’s “launch” settings to trigger a different loop every bar. I then recorded a good minute of that, and added some effects that become more pronounced and more erratic as the track progresses.

https://soundcloud.com/user-863178836-956583768/diquiet0349-got-glitch

[otolythe]

https://soundcloud.com/otolythe/glitch-disquiet0349

Used an old glitch-track I had painstakingly cut and spliced some time ago, stretched it, layered it, added some internet hildegard from an html page whose glitch let you play all the tracks at once, with rhythm provided by contact mics on a chainlink fence, which picked up the sounds of bells in the air, a bit, at the end.

[encym]

Hi all,

As this assignment addressed one of my favourite music genres, I felt compelled to submit at least a vague idea of what the concept “glitch” encompasses for me – it’s “live-playing-like”, nervous, stuttering, avoiding the obvious “stressed” parts of the bar, lots of non-repetition, and a certain machine funkiness, perhaps? The synonym “malfunctioning” wasn’t a major consideration when I made that track, even though it sounds as if nothing’s working right throughout … Anyway, that was what I was going for in my version. Made in Ableton Live 9.

https://soundcloud.com/encymlll/disquiet-0349-got-glitch