Adding Glitch And Experimental Textures

In computing, glitch is an error, a temporal malfunction. With technology reaching music and arts in general, this “error” became an influence to new post-digital aesthetics. In this video-tutorial series, producer and composer Mariano Balestena shows you what you need to know about glitch production in Ableton Live 9, from the basics to more complex techniques. The series includes a Live set with some of the sounds shown.
Styles: Experimental, IDM, Techno, Downtempo, Lo-Fi.

Glitch percussion and Glitch percussion synthesis.

Arguably one of the main aspects of glitch production, synthesizing and sequencing glitch percussions is no obvious task; there are lots of ways of doing it and it takes time. Here, we show you several workflows to approach this baroque textures.

Pad sound design

Pads often form an important aspect of your tracks, and if you are producing experimental music, sometimes just a low pass filter and a chorus won’t suffice. These are some experimental techniques to achieve other-worldly pads.

Importing files as raw data

Sound design is a complex task that often gets you carried away from the producing workflow. Here’s a cool technique that will allow you to lose some control and to produce noise textures in an unexpected way.

Glitch stabs

Stabs are a fundamental part of your groove and at the same time can help providing harmonic context. In this video, I will show you a few ways to spice them up with some glitchy goodness.

Master track freeze

If you want to make your track sound like your listeners’ device broke, try applying this easy and fun technique.

Sudden changes

Cool tricks to give your synth patches a sense of instability transforming the sound in fast and unpredictable way.

Effects feedback

Feedback is loathed by soundmen and worshiped by noise-music lovers. We are going to apply a few techniques with sends and returns tracks to create new textures, from soft ambient eco-systems to raging feedback.