slowtrain
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Obviously, I don't think glitch is immune to being absorbed seamlessly into the mainstream. In fact, my point was that the way audio software is researched and developed pretty much guaranteed that it would be absorbed, to a certain extent. My concern relates to how contemporary post-glitch artists react (or don't react) to this assimilation. I really, really like stuff along the lines of Tape and Mountains but I feel that, more often than not, these artists simply integrate glitchy textures into a decorative audio landscape. I'd like to hear more artists finding new ways to use digital audio errors in a way that is confounding, challenging and uncanny.
I guess a fundamental problem with the way in which glitch in the sense yr discussing has kind of 'petered out' sotospeak, is that it is very medium dependent, so it becomes kind of limiting in a way, to do new things...