quoted 2 lines 1) If your friend asks you "What does glitchpop sounds like?" what would>1) If your friend asks you "What does glitchpop sounds like?" what would
>you say? What is the sound(s) of glitchpop?
Something along the lines of "the intentional misuse of music
technology"/alternately "the aesthetic that resulted from mimicking the sound
of malfunctioning technology." In other words, artists are mimicking the
stuttering of CD's and the sounds of over-timestretching and overdriven audio
buffers without actually scratching up CD's and overpowering their PC's. The
resulting aesthetic is "clicky"- micro-stutters and edits, bit-crushed
(crunchy) sounds, granular synthesis.
quoted 2 lines 2) If your friend asked for a few sample tracks to help them understand>2) If your friend asked for a few sample tracks to help them understand
>the sounds of glitchpop, what would you give them?
DAT Politics - "butter", Kid 606 and Mike Patton- "Secrets for sale", any Soft
Pink Truth song.
I'd also discuss how the glitch aesthetic has been showing up in the top-40
mainstream, from Madonna's auto-tuned vocals and stuttered acoustic guitar, to
Timbaland's backwards vocals and bitcrushing on Missy Elliot's songs, to BT's
heavy use of Kyma's morphing and granular synthesis on N'Sync's "Pop."
andrew
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