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glitch

Glitch is a genre of experimental electronic music that emerged in the 1990s, distinguished by the deliberate use of glitches in audio media and other sonic artifacts. The genre takes its sounds from malfunctions in recording equipment and digital electronics, and its practitioners work from a philosophical position that treats errors and failures as compositional material rather than problems to be corrected. In Computer Music Journal, composer and writer Kim Cascone classified glitch as a subgenre of electronica and used the term post-digital to describe the glitch aesthetic.

emerged ~1990 · derived from electronica ↗ see in graph

Sound of glitch

Tekka
Sweet Trip
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In Aisles
Nero's Day at Disneyland
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Animus Vox
The Glitch Mob
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We Can Make The World Stop
The Glitch Mob
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Fortune Days
The Glitch Mob
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Sources & Attribution

Source Entry Name Confidence Link Notes
Last.fm glitch Derived from data —
Wikipedia glitch music Derived from data ↗

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