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I don't find the resulting glitched video very interesting ... it just looks and sounds like an MPEG streaming having trouble in a glitchy low-bandwidth environ

I don't find the resulting glitched video very interesting ... it just looks and sounds like an MPEG streaming having trouble in a glitchy low-bandwidth environment. One glitched audio example I found quite beautiful is the audio art piece overlaid on John Adam's "Christian Zeal and Activity" from "The Chairman Dances" album ( https://youtu.be/59ceORsBT0A?t=204 https://youtu.be/59ceORsBT0A?t=204 ). The URL starting at 3:24 provides about a minute music intro to the glitched, cut, re-ordered audio of an Oral Roberts (?) sermon excerpt where he talks about Jesus healing a man with a disabled hand. (Not all performances of this piece use the same audio sample.)

leviathant 8y ago
>I don't find the resulting glitched video very interesting ... it just looks and sounds like an MPEG streaming having trouble in a glitchy low-bandwidth environment. "I don't find the resulting distorted audio very interesting ... it sounds like a overdriven amplifier having trouble with a broken low-quality speaker" Often the kind of malfunctioning or low-quality processing that plagues engineers is embraced by creative types. There are countless examples in the audio world over the last half-century - look at the popularity of overdrive pedals and bitcrushers and analog delay effects in a world where pristine amplification and effects processing is possible on affordable consumer-grade equipment. There's a similarity to many of the changes that audio editing and processing underwent in the early 2000s, as tools of the trade become more widely available.
- lozenge 8y ago
  Somebody else posted this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I - this actually evokes something. There just isn't something creative about the video, which is an unremarkable transformation of an unremarkable video.
  - leviathant 8y ago
    That video is also 13 years old. Data moshing by itself can be about as exciting as listening to a guitar feeding back into an amp. But using it as part of a larger visual palette, and it's like a new kind of seasoning. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMYIWSGlT54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMYIWSGlT54

leviathant 8y ago

>I don't find the resulting glitched video very interesting ... it just looks and sounds like an MPEG streaming having trouble in a glitchy low-bandwidth environment. "I don't find the resulting distorted audio very interesting ... it sounds like a overdriven amplifier having trouble with a broken low-quality speaker" Often the kind of malfunctioning or low-quality processing that plagues engineers is embraced by creative types. There are countless examples in the audio world over the last half-century - look at the popularity of overdrive pedals and bitcrushers and analog delay effects in a world where pristine amplification and effects processing is possible on affordable consumer-grade equipment. There's a similarity to many of the changes that audio editing and processing underwent in the early 2000s, as tools of the trade become more widely available.

lozenge 8y ago
Somebody else posted this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1f3St51S9I - this actually evokes something. There just isn't something creative about the video, which is an unremarkable transformation of an unremarkable video.
- leviathant 8y ago
  That video is also 13 years old. Data moshing by itself can be about as exciting as listening to a guitar feeding back into an amp. But using it as part of a larger visual palette, and it's like a new kind of seasoning. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMYIWSGlT54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMYIWSGlT54