I just made this post to the electronic music production tribe discussion on creating glitch effects. I was inspired by John Zorko's creative post about using wrought iron pieces to create acoustic glitch techniques and.........well, I put them on line..............they are from my live looping CD so they are a couple of years old.
my post:
Found Glitch Effects
John Zorko's suggestion of using a wrought iron work
jogged my memory for a great glitchey sound made from
found objects.
take several glasses (made of heavy glass NOT crystal or anything lightweight) that have different pitches if you clink them. Bar Glasses are fantastic for this.
and
1)Then go find an old piece of rusted rebar.
turn the glasses upside down and rub the
openings of them down the rusted rebar.............the irregularities in the metal will cause really fast glitching sounds that have the pitch of the glass you are rubbing against it
2) take one to several bullet clitoral vibrators with a high RPM motor.
Turn them on and drop them into the bottoms of the glasses.
What happens is the vibrator makes a very rapid staccato drilling sound on the bottom of the glass but occasionally, they will jump up and hit the glass higher up , ringing it rapicdly like a glass telephone bell (the old fashioned metal ringer styled telephones).
On my last CD, I came up with a 'found' minor-ish scale of six diffently pitched bar glasses (I went to a bar supply house and asked the manager if I could take half an hour and try out every bar glass in the place).
What is cool is that the 'chord' that is created by different glasses sounding at random times is constantly changing in rhythm and texture.
I then took the percieved fundamental tone of my found scale and
turned it on it's side letting it constantly ring the glass. I made a separate solo loop on my Elextrix Repeater and then used a midi wind synth controller to play the 'melody' over three octaves while my long random
'chord' looped.
If anyone is interested I'll post the two mp3s of the pieces I used those techniques at
www.looppool.info/Translucent...reenPlastic/
I also use very tiny ball bearings or shotgun shot in large brass candy dishes...................you gong the candy dish with your thumb and the ball bearings cause a glitchy sound.
I realize this isn't all that electronic, although I use a lot of DSP effects to process the results, but I am fascinated by trying to make acoustic sounds that sound as if they are electronic or computer manipulated sounds.
my post:
Found Glitch Effects
John Zorko's suggestion of using a wrought iron work
jogged my memory for a great glitchey sound made from
found objects.
take several glasses (made of heavy glass NOT crystal or anything lightweight) that have different pitches if you clink them. Bar Glasses are fantastic for this.
and
1)Then go find an old piece of rusted rebar.
turn the glasses upside down and rub the
openings of them down the rusted rebar.............the irregularities in the metal will cause really fast glitching sounds that have the pitch of the glass you are rubbing against it
2) take one to several bullet clitoral vibrators with a high RPM motor.
Turn them on and drop them into the bottoms of the glasses.
What happens is the vibrator makes a very rapid staccato drilling sound on the bottom of the glass but occasionally, they will jump up and hit the glass higher up , ringing it rapicdly like a glass telephone bell (the old fashioned metal ringer styled telephones).
On my last CD, I came up with a 'found' minor-ish scale of six diffently pitched bar glasses (I went to a bar supply house and asked the manager if I could take half an hour and try out every bar glass in the place).
What is cool is that the 'chord' that is created by different glasses sounding at random times is constantly changing in rhythm and texture.
I then took the percieved fundamental tone of my found scale and
turned it on it's side letting it constantly ring the glass. I made a separate solo loop on my Elextrix Repeater and then used a midi wind synth controller to play the 'melody' over three octaves while my long random
'chord' looped.
If anyone is interested I'll post the two mp3s of the pieces I used those techniques at
www.looppool.info/Translucent...reenPlastic/
I also use very tiny ball bearings or shotgun shot in large brass candy dishes...................you gong the candy dish with your thumb and the ball bearings cause a glitchy sound.
I realize this isn't all that electronic, although I use a lot of DSP effects to process the results, but I am fascinated by trying to make acoustic sounds that sound as if they are electronic or computer manipulated sounds.
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