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.
More on this 349th weekly Disquiet Junto project (Got Glitch? / The Assignment: Help define “glitch” by glitching something, and explaining what you did) at:
https://disquiet.com/0349/ 1
Major thanks to Sevenisn, Mark Lentczner, and other folks in the Junto Slack for pitching in on this project’s development.
More on the Disquiet Junto at:
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Image associated with this project is by Roland Gesthuizen, used thanks to Flickr and a Creative Commons license:
https://flic.kr/p/NzDeV
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