Against the tyranny of musical form
Glitch Music, Affect, and the Sound of Digital Malfunction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8077955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Haden Church (0000-0001-5425-7002, Brigham Young University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 315-328 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Studies in Mass Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-3180 • E-ISSN: 1529-5036 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15295036.2017.1333624 |
| OpenAlex | W2621876139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 22 |
This essay provides a model of how to critically read non-representational sound by attending carefully to its material elements. It presents a novel conceptualization of glitch music, an experimental medium of digital art comprised of the unpleasant sounds of technology malfunctioning. The analysis examines the representative songs of glitch artists Oval and their sonic articulation of the regenerative possibilities of failure. Although Oval largely considers conventional musical form to be tyrannical, its sound art simulates traditional musical elements such as rhythm, phrasing, and instrumentation, and transforms them into their respective glitch equivalents of metrical dissonance, repeated sound textures, and timbral experimentation, thereby altering digital malfunctions of sound into a sensual affective experience. Although music is theorized elsewhere to be persuasive because of its mobilization of emotions within the listener, the glitch art of Oval is suasory because it generates affective intensities that operate at an intercorporeal level of matter-energy. The songs of Oval update the modern directive of the Futurist sound movement to train the listener to accept a life surrounded by the sound of digital technology
Acoustics · Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Audio signal · Digital audio · Glitch · John Cage · Musical · Performance art · Sound (geography · Sound art · Speech recognition · Telecommunications · Timbre · Visual arts · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Law
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,8 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |