sound effects?

what are you currently using to make sounds?

you can make a stuttering sound by setting short loop points in just about any sampler... or... by setting an lfo to modulate the level (same idea as the VCA)...

timestretching tends to make good artifacts...

really... in the spirit of glitch... try to break the tools you have with insanely wrong settings... and see what you come up with!

A wonderful simple trick if you have Sound Forge on a PC is
to look at the upper graphic that represents the whole .wav form
when you are looking at a smaller portion of it.

As the file is playing, click the mouse on the moving cursor in that
upper view and drag backwards.

At any point you can let go and the file continues to play in realtime.

This confuses the computer and makes rapid rhythmic glitches.

I love to open up Cool Edit Pro and Sound forge at the same time and record the results of my real time glitching into Cool Edit Pro.

Save the improv..............reopen it in Sound Forge and the do the same thing over again.

You can sit back when you are done with your hand on the marker button (the letter M) and with your eyes closed, just drop a marker anytime you here something interesting.

go back, create some loops out of the juicy parts and then put them into something like ACID or Cubase or Sonar or Fruity Loops and start using them in a compositional way.

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Another technique is to go to a very high resolution of viewing in any sound editor (Mac or Pc) grab the smallest portions of the file, copy it and the at the cursor, paste it over and over again.

Every time you do so, drop a marker.

In Sound Forge (which I personally like a lot more than Cool Edit Pro, Audition (the new version) or Peak (which I have on my Mac) for ease of use....................

Grab one of those slices by finding the marker you dropped, holding down the shift key and then using the right sideways arrow key on your computer and hold down until the grabbed portion is exactly one of your incremental
pastings long.

Now, let go of the arrow key (while continuing to hold down the shift key) and grab the selected slice with your cursor.

Move it along to any of the slices. let go and then make the slice go silent
by selecting VOLUME under the PROCESS menu item and setting the
the volume to 0%

In this way you can create rhythmic patterns by selectively silencing individual copies of the little glitch you have made.

Very small glitches will vary in volume according to how small they are.

I hope this makes sense.

So I found some wierd plugs that might work fro you
www.jackdark.net/darkwarefree.html

if you have the ability... run the output of an fm synth into it's own fm input...

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.