what is GLITCH ?

Glitch is exactly what you need it to be
exactly when you didn't expect it to be what you wanted it to be.

But these definitions are also true:

glitch (noun)
1. A minor malfunction, mishap, or technical problem; a snag: a computer glitch; a navigational glitch; a glitch in the negotiations.
2. A false or spurious electronic signal caused by a brief, unwanted surge of electric power.
3. Astronomy A sudden change in the period of rotation of a neutron star.

Wiki Glitch and you get a poorly-cited article that says that glitch is "is a genre of electronic music that became popular in the late 1990s with the increasing use of digital signal processing, particularly on computers."

Glitch! is also a funky movie with playboy playmates that I've never seen. It looks really weird though so someones got to rent that and tell me how it is.


But we all know best...

Glitch is a boston-based video production collective.

These guys are teh amazing. Check em out... I am hugely in to collaborating with these people and I consider many of them among the most talented visual artists I've ever heard of. Click on their "technology" tab to see some amazing lasers that Sean Stevens built (i scored the video). Of course you can also link to Zebbler from there too, and preview some great large-scale stuff we've been working on as well. Jeff Mission, Sean Faherty, and Jen Rosselli are some of the other

amazing artists that are a part of the group- all worth checking out a sweet fix of eyepleasure!

To me personally, Glitch is a artform that relies on micro-repetious time phrasings and the aesthetic of technology exploitation or failure.

In my music, glitch essentially a sound that is repeated, distorted, or changed with varying levels of complexity at high speeds, usually conforming of rhythmic and harmonic context.

CONTEXT is the key ingredient to making a good glitch. It's an amazing acheivement when a moment in time is repeated so quickly that the time it represents breaks free of it's linearity. This is the asthetic to making an artform and instrument of high-speed looping techniques.

Here's a really great article on context and sound selection that applies to making glitch, as well as all electronic music: The Affect of Selection in Digital Sound Art