Matthew Irvine Brown has written 18 short pieces specifically to be played in iTunes shuffle mode. The fragments can be downloaded from his site to create your own original track. A liking of
glitch will probably increase your enjoyment.
posted by meech
on Jan 17, 2011 -
22 comments
Take a game like Super Mario Bros. Introduce garbage data into the code, either through random Game Genie codes or a corruptor program. Try to play what results,
while the laws of reality slowly go insane in the background, and upload the "best" results to YouTube. Can Mario make it to the princess
when stomping a Goomba turns the air to water,
when hitting a block ends the world,
when the world is infinite length,
if the ground can't support his weight,
when touching a flagpole destroys his mind,
when brought into being over an ocean immediately before a fatal heart attack,
before the enemies turn into Bowser-halves,
while the universe is freaking out around him?
(hint: no)
posted by JHarris
on Oct 11, 2010 -
50 comments
The Lynchsons is a remixed episode of the Simpsons with strange graphical glitches, almost no discernable plot, rythmic noise collages, mis-cued and distorted music, and an overall odd sensibility.
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posted by codacorolla
on Sep 26, 2010 -
70 comments
Muslimgauze was the sound of an angry Middle East, a prolific source of music
dark,
spacious and
smothering. Tension was a constant theme not only in the music but in the packaging. (For example,
Betrayal shows the hands of Yassir Arafat and Yitzak Rabin, and guns, knives, and news photos of an Arab world at war were a common motif in titles and sleeve art.) However, the music wasn't the usual agitprop fare: Music meant to rile a public to a cause isn't normally pigeonholed as
ambient,
electronica or
musique concrete. But the band, hidden from public view, was rumored to donate proceeds to Palestinian terrorists, and that they were eventually silenced by Mossad.
Despite the prodigious output -- issuing almost a hundred EPs and albums between 1983 and 1998, over a hundred more since -- limited distribution and perpetual obscurity ensured the rumors were easier to find than the music. While the facts about Muslimgauze have little in common with the fictions, they are, if anything, stranger...
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posted by ardgedee
on Dec 22, 2008 -
48 comments
