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Re:The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: ant... by nwatson on Monday July 16, 2018 @08:54AM (#17540903)
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 ). 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.)

Re:The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: ant... by leviathant on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:09PM (#17542917)
>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.

Re:The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: ant... by lozenge on Monday July 16, 2018 @06:56PM (#17545877)
Somebody else posted this link: 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.

Re:The key to creating gorgeous, glitchy YouTube images: ant... by leviathant on Tuesday July 17, 2018 @12:30PM (#17550876)
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