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"A major part of the glitch aesthetic to me is the short repetition of audio samples. This can happen, for instance, when your computer crashes and it continuously loops whatever happened to be in the operating system's audio buffer at the time. This sound is so recognizable as a glitch because the perfect repetition of audio is uncommon in most contexts. At the same time, rapidly repeating sounds gain a musical quality by virtue of repetition.

In this piece, I wanted to explore the use of this type of sample repetition as the basis for a musical composition. I started with a short audio clip from another composition I'm working on. I used Ableton to sample this clip at random positions, durations, and pitches. After generating several minutes of audio this way, I began chopping it up and arranging pieces of it into sections. Most of the final audio in this piece consists only of these samples. Only a short part towards the end contains a separate percussion layer; most of the percussive sounds were baked into the samples!

I wanted to connect the visual aspect of this piece together with the audio. To do this, I've rendered a set of simple geometric primitives. Similar to the audio samples used as the basis for the music, these primitives change positions, shape, and colour based on the audio. These transformations are done in real-time based on the audio spectrogram at each frame."

German Palacio Born in Buenos Aires and based in New York, Ulisespal is a musician and visual artist. His
work incorporates dark concepts and new technology. Lately, he has been developing a new visual technique incorporating audio reactivity to his sound and visuals as lights.

Meii In his years-spanning practice, Nacho Catrileo has explored aggression and ambience through a variety
of mediums and styles. Finding solace in the language of Post & Experimental Metal, specifically the
juxtaposition of heavy & soothing sounds, foundations of what later would shape the pillars of his electronic music project meii were created. 

Concept by meii, AI images generated by VQGAN+CLIP.
 
Meii In his years-spanning practice, Nacho Catrileo has explored aggression and ambience through a variety
of mediums and styles. Finding solace in the language of Post & Experimental Metal, specifically the juxtaposition of heavy & soothing sounds, foundations of what later would shape the pillars of his electronic music project meii were created.

Meii In his years-spanning practice, Nacho Catrileo has explored aggression and ambience through a variety
of mediums and styles. Finding solace in the language of Post & Experimental Metal, specifically the 
juxtaposition of heavy & soothing sounds, foundations of what later would shape the pillars of his electronic music project meii were created.

Jim Kimchi is an electronic music artist with over ten years of experience in creating ambient, techno and idm with heavy lofi and organic elements, under the moniker "halvknægten".

Since discovering fellow hyperglitch artists Woulg and Vaetxh, he has delved more into the glitch aesthetic in music, co-founding glitch.cool and evolving his methods under the name Jim Kimchi.

Working primarily with the concept of "fermenting" sound, Jim works with generative sound design and composition through a variety of techniques such as resampling and micro editing while always focusing on rhythmic unstability, percussive focus, high complexity, overwhelming ambiences, and dry, textural bass design in order to achieve the sounds at home in Hyperglitch.

Jim’s most recent EP "Pure Gravy" released on Paracusia Media and since then he has been working on remixes, compilations, and his next releases.

Some techniques that have become a staple in his sound design revolve around iterative resampling and time stretching - a quasi-random approach to crafting melodic structures - as well as experimenting with various ways of breaking and glitching sounds. The project aims to dive deeply into more technical and intricate arrangements, with Hyperglitch being the archetypal route through which this can be achieved.

The sound of Abroxis is something that took a considerable leap forward over the last three years, shortly after discovering early Hyperglitch artist Woulg and the related community. From here, Abroxis co-founded and contributed heavily to the glitch.cool collective, which aims to push current boundaries surrounding glitch art, as well as to provide glitch and new media artists with free resources for creative purposes and a platform for communication and networking.

Most recently, Abroxis helped create and participated in Glitch[dot]fest, an online audio-visual stream that showcased works from glitch[dot]cool members. Shortly after, his work was featured as part of the Creative Code Festival, both online and on location in New York.

Heavyhearted is an experimental audio-visual artist from Sofia, Bulgaria. Heavyhearted’s approach to sound
design revolves around resampling, granular synthesis, dark ambience, and atmospheres, all under the common goal of achieving a cinematic experience for the listener.

Hlessi is an experimental electronic music project by Benjamin Brody. The aesthetic of Hlessi is heavily
influenced by glitch IDM (Intelligent Dance Music) artists Rob Clouth/Vaetxh, Max Cooper, woulg, and their fellow glitch[dot]cool co-members. Hlessi's work features experimental sound design, foley recordings,
sampled modular synthesizers, and iterative resampling and destructive micro editing techniques. Hlessi is
Benjamin's sonic exploration to convey the dynamic nature of human experience and emotion through unfamiliar sounds and evolving arrangements.

"The objective of my recent musical pursuit has been to capture and preserve the novel sensation of hearing a song for the first time by cultivating an environment in which the track can emerge without dictating and composing each individual part. Through a combination of my own production, randomized systems and live performance, the track will never be heard the same way twice, allowing it to take form without feeling too much like something I made whilst simultaneously retaining its original novelty. This piece primarily serves as a proof of concept upon which to expand this method of production. All audio and video were performed and captured in real-time."

Vaeprism is an electronic musician and digital/glitch artist from Sydney, Australia.
Motivated by chance as a foundation for the creative process, he seeks a flow state that embodies free
expression in whatever form it manifests. Inspired by artists such as John Cage and particularly the notion
that the highest purpose is to have none, thus putting one in accordance with nature.