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Let me start with a little back story...
About say...10 years ago I came across a little lesser known app for sound design/manipulation called "Gleetch." It was my first exposure to any kind of tool that generated disturbing, highly chaotic noises of many different kinds. At the time, this was still not considered music. Now, with the rise of glitch/dark ambient/etc stuff like that is a known method of artistic expression. Back then, I could never make it work...over half the time it anything I created would turn into some kind of feedback loop, nearly blow out my speakers, and be heard halfway down the block!!! :eek: I'm not kidding. This Gleetch tool was not to be messed with. It was truly next level in every sense of the imagination. I gave up on the plug but kept it on my harddrive...hoping one day I'd make sense of it.
Fast forward 5 years and I decide to look up the software again and see if it was still around. Sure enough, the developer "Giorgio Sancristoforo" an Italian composer who uses Max/MSP, was about to release Gleetchlab version 3! Oh man was I excited. Not only had this software survived, but it was still in development. YES!!! :D
Since Gleetchlab 3, Giorgio has also developed Berna, a software simulation of a late 1950's electroacoustic music studio.
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Enter 2013 and Giorgio has just released "Variations" a live performance software using algorithmic composition based on the serial technique. He can describe for you better than I can...it's another chapter in the genius that is this man's brain. He dreams of software, then he creates it.
Do yourself a favor (if you have a Mac, sorry PC friends!) and demo his software. We talk alot about avant garde software and techniques on ambient online...and Giorgio and his crazy creations, pretty much define the genre.
Leave your impressions of Variations or Gleetch3/Berna below!
Cheers and enjoy!
-S1gns
About say...10 years ago I came across a little lesser known app for sound design/manipulation called "Gleetch." It was my first exposure to any kind of tool that generated disturbing, highly chaotic noises of many different kinds. At the time, this was still not considered music. Now, with the rise of glitch/dark ambient/etc stuff like that is a known method of artistic expression. Back then, I could never make it work...over half the time it anything I created would turn into some kind of feedback loop, nearly blow out my speakers, and be heard halfway down the block!!! :eek: I'm not kidding. This Gleetch tool was not to be messed with. It was truly next level in every sense of the imagination. I gave up on the plug but kept it on my harddrive...hoping one day I'd make sense of it.
Fast forward 5 years and I decide to look up the software again and see if it was still around. Sure enough, the developer "Giorgio Sancristoforo" an Italian composer who uses Max/MSP, was about to release Gleetchlab version 3! Oh man was I excited. Not only had this software survived, but it was still in development. YES!!! :D
Since Gleetchlab 3, Giorgio has also developed Berna, a software simulation of a late 1950's electroacoustic music studio.
***
Enter 2013 and Giorgio has just released "Variations" a live performance software using algorithmic composition based on the serial technique. He can describe for you better than I can...it's another chapter in the genius that is this man's brain. He dreams of software, then he creates it.
Do yourself a favor (if you have a Mac, sorry PC friends!) and demo his software. We talk alot about avant garde software and techniques on ambient online...and Giorgio and his crazy creations, pretty much define the genre.
Leave your impressions of Variations or Gleetch3/Berna below!
Cheers and enjoy!
-S1gns
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