Free Windows Music Software: Synthgeek has introduced a free glitch music plugin for Windows, sg-glitchgate.

Description:

SG-Glitchgate is basically a rhythmic gate, but not set up in the standard way. There are two periodic gates which can be used for anything from regular rhythmic chopping to random rhythmic manipulations and strange dropouts.

The gates are followed by a delay unit designed to enhance the glitchiness- it does not sync to tempo, and the delay time and gain can be randomized. There are 5 LFOs to add to the fun.

Several presets are included to give you an idea of how things work.

If you give SG-Glitchgate a try, leave a comment with your thoughts!

Supercollider 140 is a free album of Twitter music – audio pieces composed of Twitter-sized snippets of SuperCollider code.

It started as a curious project, when live coding enthusiast and Toplap member Dan Stowell started tweeting tiny snippets of musical code using SuperCollider. Pleasantly surprised by the reaction, and “not wanting this stuff to vanish into the ether” he has recently collated the best pieces into a special download for The Wire’s online readership here.

Many of these pieces are actually generative, so if you re-run the source code (the track titles) you get a new piece of music.

The compositions are self-referentially named, with titles like:

{LocalOut.ar(a=CombN.ar(BPF.ar(LocalIn.ar(2)
*7.5+Saw.ar([32,33],0.2),2**LFNoise0.kr(4/3,4)*
300,0.1).distort,2,2,40));a}.play//#supercollider

Tweet that and put it in your SuperCollider!

You can preview the album below, or download it at the Internet Archive:

Detailed artist biographies for the composers are available at The Wire.

via SuperCollider

Oh Land’s Heavy Eyes (official video).

Second single from Oh Land’s debut album Fauna.

Bruno Levy took thousands of photographs in Patan, Nepal over the course of a week using flashlights and long exposures.

After getting the nod from Modeselektor and BPtich Control, he created a stop-motion narrative synched to Deboutonner.

Music video for Oil In The Eye’s Bluebottle.

This video looks at creating synced glitch effects, using Ableton Live.

Click here to view the embedded video.

via nukage9000:

how to set up live glitch effects for live DJ or performance, or for production.

Richard Devine is one of the early users of Native Instruments new The Finger, a $79 keyboard-controlled performance effects processor developed with electronic music artist Tim Exile of Warp Records.

He created this glitchtronica freakout, and has this to say about The Finger:

Here is a little experiment I tried using Tim Exile’s new Finger Plug-in with Logic 9.

I was running some of my drums on a track in Logic’s Flex mode, slightly drawing in graphic tempo changes, and automating all the parameter twist knobs drastically, while programming every MIDI parameter I could assign on the piano roll editor, Doing more then my two hands could do=) Just letting it all go crazy.

Some strange interesting results indeed. =)

Richard Devine, playing around with the Monome triggering Native Instruments Battery.

Mr. Meeble’s Until I Grasp the Second

Music by Sprutbass, Data moshing video by Nic Brown and David James.

God of Small Things, a short film by Chris Abbas and Sumit Seru. Music by múm.

via musicofsound

Johannes LDC Guerreiro’s glitchy Magic Mustard Machine:

Some Cinema 4D Mograph animations were mixed up in AE with some sound expression driven maskings. Time and space flicker together to the beat!

Sound by: PNFA – Wolfram Gruss / pnfa.net

Max Cooper Wasp (Traum 112)

via TraumUTube:

Animated and edited and produced by LoveBite.

Music by Max Cooper.

Released on Colognes label Traum as part of the Symphonica release.

Buchla 200e 18052009 features a little Buchla 200e modular synth glitchtronica.

via cray56

This amazing glitchtronica is a promo for OFFF 2009.

OFFF is an international festival for “the post digital creation culture.”

Says trash_audio’s Justin McGrath: “This is the coolest video I’ve ever seen! And I mean it! (For now) I want this to be a feature length film. I have no idea what it would be about, but I don’t care, it’s that awesome.”

It’s that awesome.

Leave a comment with your thoughts!

Sixes Last

A project of 1st-ave-machine.com.

Music is from Alias.

via Coilhouse, IndoleMugen

Dominik Eulberg SANSULA – Final version – (Traum 110)

via TraumUTube:

Filmed and edited by Dirk Rauscher

Description:

Each sound has been made from scratch, and over 20 Hardware synthesizers have been used to create this Nu-Era Series release which boasts one of the most diverse and intricate collections of glitch material released to date.

What can you expect from this collection? Files seperated into; Hisses, Klangs, 8-Bit, Industrial, Clicks, Noise, Distortion, Bass, Hat, Snare, Percussion, Circuits, LFO, Modulation, Lo-Fi, Mechanical, Pitched, Buzz, Soundscape, Stretched, Synth….

The sounds ranges from robotic glitches to crushed percussions, pure white noise alchemy to circuit bent mayhem, defragmented sonic drum electronics to dark metallic collisions, and that’s just for starters!

Glitch Cuts is available for download in various formats (24-bit) for £12.95 GBP.

Audio demos and a free download for Glitch Cuts are available at the Prime Loops site.

Brian Green posted this video, along with an in-depth description of his live ambient glitchtronica rig:

This video is to show what my live setup now looks like.

This set up consist of: 

Macbook, M-Box 2 Mini, Ableton Live 7Le, 2 Ipod Touch Units, Itouch Midi – Matrix and MCU apps Ibanez Gio Guitar, M-Audio O2 Controller, TI Speak And Spell.

Below i will explain a little more into detail of what i am doing.

In Ableton:

My set up is like this, anything running through send 1 is doubled (unless it is a live instrument), everything also runs through send 2 which is the Audio Damage – Rough Rider Compressor, In send one i am running Livecut a simple delay and a reverb the reason for doubling any track that runs through send 1 is because somethings i cut deep with Livecut and it would disturb the track from flowing smoothly if there was an abrupt audio cut out so by doing it this way it can cut as far as it will go with no problems, I am also only using 11 other built in effects and running 2 live instruments through ableton. 

In live it looks like this, there are 14 lanes, 4 melody lanes 2 main 2 clones, 4 texture lanes 2 main 2 clones, 2 lanes for beats 1 main 1 clone ( i very rarely use drums) and 2 for gear and then the 2 lanes for the sends and thats it.

Note: for a good example of what happens when you cut really deep with my set up go to 6:25 in the video if i did not have the back layer behind that it would not work and throw it off this is why i clone everything that runs through send one.

Controller:

My O2 is set up to work mainly with effects i have the first 4 knobs set up so that each knob controls 8 points on Livecut so between them i can control all 32 points at the same time if i choose, the other 4 knobs are distributed between other various effects. The keys also turn on and off effects.

Itouch Apps:

MCU: Is one of the itouch apps i am using i run Mcu on the itouch that is right near the pickups i use the sliders on it to control knobs on effects for the guitar.

Matrix: is the app im running on the ipod that is near the bottom of the guitar it is a bunch off buttons that are used to turn on and off effects for the guitar.

Live Gear:

The Guitar, This is just used to create extra texture and back layer parts i just use it to add that extra sound im looking for in the background, it runs about 50% through send 1 and has a few other effects on it as well.

The speak and spell is running through line 2 of my Mbox and it is running about 75% through send 1 and all the way through 2 it also has a few more effects on its channel.

Check out Green’s YouTube channel for more demos of unusual gear.

entendre.

Info:

performed live with mlrV + monome256

demonstrating the ‘+v’ visual manipulation insert for mlrV

utilising Max/MSP+Jitter

all audio+video created by t.gill 2008/2009