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[idm] What's your glitchpop stereotype?

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2003-11-14 19:50[idm] What's your glitchpop stereotype?
2003-11-14 21:12ahorton RE: [idm] What's your glitchpop stereotype?
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2003-11-14 19:50l.garcia@utoronto.caSorry to be cross-posting like a newbie, but I'm hoping to get some 411 together in short
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Sorry to be cross-posting like a newbie, but I'm hoping to get some 411 together in short time... I was just asked to give a lecture in a course on Music/Media/Technology here at U of T, on glitchpop and the whole artistic misuse of technology/scavenger aesthetics thing. I've been putting the lecture plan with little difficulty, but I'm having a real problem choosing the 'example' recordings that I'd play for the class. So if you're familiar with glitchpop (or clickpop, or whatever) I have a couple of questions: 1) If your friend asks you "What does glitchpop sounds like?" what would you say? What is the sound(s) of glitchpop? 2) If your friend asked for a few sample tracks to help them understand the sounds of glitchpop, what would you give them? I've already got my own ideas of what glitchpop is, but I don't want this lecture to turn into "Luis's top ten." Thanks in advance to everyone who helps me out! cheers, Luis P.S. It goes without saying, but please respond by private email. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org
2003-11-14 21:12ahorton>1) If your friend asks you "What does glitchpop sounds like?" what would >you say? What i
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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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: idm-unsubscribe@hyperreal.org For additional commands, e-mail: idm-help@hyperreal.org