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Glitchatom-1
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Glitchatom-1 is the first in a series of experimental pieces where I’m trying to learn about glitching and get more familiar with Reaktor.
In this piece I’m using Peter Dines Frankenloop ensemble to play a short piece using the rInstruments RPiano reverse piano sampled instrument for Kontakt.
I’m also using Peter Dines ParamDrumTR ensemble to generate a rather sketchy beat and Stylus RMX to provide a rather more steady one. Oh ParamDrum is very neat and very cheap, well worth having and supporting a guy like Peter.
ParamDrum and Kontakt are both being routed into The Finger which is being driven by Elysium using this composition:
The net result is a bit of a mess. There’s too much going on and it doesn’t glue together, yet, some bits of it are interesting.
In future experiments I’m going to try and see how to make this work better.
If this triggers any thoughts for you I’d be interested to hear them.
Guest
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i still havent checked your reponse when I asked what glitching is...I can't look back at old responses with internet explorer 8..there is a glitch in the software..lol
dougsparling
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Gotta agree with mmi...genius indeed. I can't wait to hear the stuff you put out once you "learn it." :)
Guest
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Glitchtastic!
Mr Sandbags
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Thank you for all the kind words. @MMI: By 'mess' i refer to what I perceive as a lack of underlying structure combined with over-density. I guess I wasn't so much being pejorative about my work (although given past comments I've made I can understand why that conclusion might be reached) so much as indicating that I am aiming towards something more deliberate, more structured, and sparser. Of course whether I get there, or somewhere totally different, is quite another matter :)
Mr Sandbags
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nebulonicalchemy: that's a greatquestion. Glitchiness is something that is easy to understand when you already know and quite hard to describe otherwise. But here goes: A glitch is usually a minor malfunction in a system where something doesn't work quite right (but isn't a complete meltdown). So in audio terms is might be described as something that doesn't sound right, in the context of the original sound, for a brief period. The Finger is a MIDI driven effect unit that provides a number of effects suitable for creating audio glitches for example short loops, pitch shifting, comb filters, scratches and so on. The untreated audio is fed through The Finger and, when it receives appropriate MIDI, it applies an effect but only for so long as the MIDI note is being played. So you get "audio glitches" interrupting the normal playback of the piece. This piece is so convoluted that it's hard to hear a clear separation between glitch and non-glitch. I'll try and do something about that in the next piece.
Guest
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like it. sound quite ethnic in a strange way
Guest
said
what is glitching?
Chris McGrath
said
Really like this, a good balance between the glitchiness and the rest of the track. Looking forward to seeing where you go with this
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