Glitch (music)
Clicks & Cuts [ ˌ klɪksənkʌts ] is an experimental variety of popular electronic music that developed in the late 1990s. Intersections exist with Noise, Techno, House, Industrial, Nudub, Hardcore Techno, Electronica and Ambient.
Formation conditions
A basic tenet was the progressive computerization of music production mid 90s. No one needed more a standalone sampler, or other complex equipment. It was enough for a simple notebook with a corresponding music software. Each sound could be this easy to sample or generate on the computer and manipulate and change beyond recognition.
Many musicians produce almost exclusively on the laptop. There are many classic Bedroom Producer, meaning they produce in their own homes instead of in a studio. Expensive, music studios are practically no longer necessary with the exception of mastering. Modern laptops and sophisticated production software have revolutionized the music production process here.
Name
Achim Szepanski, founder of the German label Mille Plateaux, sees the term " Clicks & Cuts" rather an approach to music, as a stylistic genre description: " The term ' Clicks & Cuts ' you are looking ultimately for a genre that is actually none. It's about production difference: nesting and displacements are dynamic and temporalizes " The term refers on the one hand the possible with sequencers Cuts - " This programmatic processing of musical material is addressed as a matter of a timed transition. . The variety of options draws nonlinear ' composing ' and real-time multitasking after themselves. " On the other hand on clicks that " the metastatic proliferation of electronic music [ represent ]. They are within the in-between, are also without reference and omnipresent. "
Live Presentation
Many laptop musicians perform as a live act on, especially since there are many serious platforms ( festival, series of events, etc.) are now available for laptop musicians ( the largest annual events are the festivals " Sónar " in Barcelona and " Mutek " in Montreal). However, some acts such as Mouse on Mars occur in this case as a band formation and try their music on fassbarere acoustic and electronic instruments to be transferred.
Glitch
Glitch is a subgenre of Clicks & Cuts, based on digital noise, (supposedly) random sound events or programmed algorithms. The name is inspired by the same term used in electronics: There Glitch describes errors in the circuits. The term is thus defined purely on the production method, it can be very different aesthetic results be the result, which are not tied to the actual aesthetics of Clicks & Cuts.
Thus, e.g. be a scratched and therefore hanging and jumping CD with their typical sound of the central theme of a piece of music. This aesthetic has been the hallmark of oval, even after they are no longer related the real jump noise, but purely working with sound synthesis software. Also music extraneous data such as log files of a web server, can be converted into music, the resulting random structures gets (like the Austrians Farmers Manual ).
Other representatives go about it with considerably less radical aesthetics. The Berlin musicians Pole uses a defective filter, the eponymous " 4- pole" of the company Waldorf. As soon as it was put into use, it produced, originally undesirable, scratching and crackling noises that varied, thereby but musically oriented by itself on input. The production method led it to an aesthetic that of the Jamaican dub was so close that you soon spoke of Citydub or Nudub.
Significant representatives
- Akufen
- Apparatus
- Arovane
- Atom Heart
- Autechre
- Bourbonese Qualk
- Burnt Friedman
- Byetone
- Byteburger
- Carsten Nicolai
- Cex
- Сон
- Curtis Roads
- Disinformation
- Donna Summer (Jason Forrest )
- Donnacho Costello
- Ekkehard Ehlers
- Farmers Manual
- Fennesz
- Florian Hecker
- Francisco López
- Frank Bretschneider
- F.X. Randomiz
- Gcttcatt
- General Magic
- Goem
- Hazard
- Hrvatski
- Institute of Fine Motor Skills
- January Jelinek
- Joseph Suchy
- Kid 606
- Kim Cascone
- Kit Clayton
- Comet
- Marc Behrens
- Massimo
- Microstoria
- Mikael Stavöstrand
- Mitchell Akiyama
- Modernist, The
- Mokira
- Mouse on Mars
- Noto
- Nq ( Nils Quak )
- O.S.T. ( Chris Douglas )
- Oval
- Pan Sonic (formerly Panasonic)
- Phoneme
- Phonophani
- Pita
- Pole
- Pomassl
- Radian
- Data center
- Rosy Parlane
- Ryoji Ikeda
- Schneider TM
- Scanner ( Robin Rimbaud )
- Savant
- Senking
- S.E.T.I.
- Snd
- Stilluppsteypa
- Taylor Deupree
- Tennis
- Terre Thaemlitz
- The Glitch Mob
- Thomas Brinkmann
- Vladislav Delay
- William Basinski
- Wolfgang Voigt
- January St. Werner
Labels
- A- music
- Mego
- Mille Plateaux
- Raster-Noton
- Rather Interesting
- Scape
- Sonig
- Staalplaat
- Staubgold
- Touch
- Warp Records